Nursing Shortage Crisis

You mean stories like this?https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-21/u-s-hospi...

Keep it up, how else are nurses going to have a job?

That's an interesting choice of analogy. Just a few weeks ago there was a popular submission here reporting how 90% of nurses are considering leaving their profession in the next year due to burnout and poor working conditions [0]. It's true that doctors receive more training, but without nurses (hell, even with any fewer nurses than we have now) our health system would completely collapse.[0] http

Nurses are not an infinitely fungible commodity.

"short on nurses" != "only condition we're treating nowadays is Covid"

It's like firing all your nurses and having expensive doctors work overtime. In other words, silly.

A lot of it is finding the people, beyond the physical space. You can't just 'spin up' nurses like AWS instances. They're in short supply right now, and many are feeling burned out. There's a post going around about a doctor who got assaulted by deranged family members of a man who died. Don't know if it's real, but a lot of people were saying they've experienced similar and are just done with it.

Nurses is a tough profession. They are required to work for longer hours and not paid that much. With Covid, dealing with anti-science patients must have been very draining mentally. On top of changing the working conditions and increasing pay, may be we should make the nurses training free to make the field more attractive.

there's been nursing shortage for my whole life, what the hell is wrong with people? why can't we take care of each other

source? do the nurses unions protect this?