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shep_pat t1_iyohfpk wrote

Let’s watch more hospital workers quit

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Grass8989 t1_iyosgsr wrote

Tons of senior nurses are taking remote and/or travel positions (Which pay significantly higher than staff positions). The turnover is insane in Emergency Depts and has only gotten worse since the pandemic.

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shep_pat t1_iypcvyq wrote

I was thinking of getting into nursing or teaching to get out of bartending but damn. I think I’m better off

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Grass8989 t1_iypd685 wrote

Probably not worth it, if you’re at a busy bar. Travel nurses are/have been making bank throughout the pandemic. From what I’ve heard that’s slowing down a bit now.

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shep_pat t1_iypdf5b wrote

I do very well generally but like the other two professions. It’s not the same anymore.

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MyPiedaterre t1_iyr13m4 wrote

What do you find different? Was it covid that caused the change?

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shep_pat t1_iyrihtt wrote

I’m not sure. We are all burnt out. A lot of new people are clueless. The money is all in the hands of the 1%. It’s hard to describe but I’d rather do almost anything else lately

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Amazing-Gap-3320 t1_iypq26d wrote

Travel nurses need experience before getting to travel elsewhere.

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Grass8989 t1_iyputvh wrote

Correct, which leads to a constant cycle of new grad nurses replacing senior nurses. You also generally need experience to work in the ED. Why would you subject yourself to that when you can make 3X the money traveling.

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Amazing-Gap-3320 t1_iypvab1 wrote

If travel nurses get a contract to work in a hospital elsewhere but have no hospital experience (and get one day (or less) of orientation from what I hear), do you really want a nurse like that taking care of your loved ones?

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Grass8989 t1_iypvrqv wrote

A lot of the travel nurses are quite experienced so I personally wouldn’t mind, but regardless this is just the reality of nursing right now.

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Amazing-Gap-3320 t1_iypyazw wrote

You’ve clearly missed reading any part of my comments. You don’t encourage new grads to go into travel right away because they don’t have enough experience.

I KNOW the current travel nurses have plenty of hospital experience, that’s why they get to be good travel nurses.

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Grass8989 t1_iyqnsib wrote

I never said you can be a new grad and immediately start traveling, however you usually can after a year or so depending on the agency, which is very appealing to (relatively) new nurses

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HagridsSexyNippples t1_iyrf6c5 wrote

Do they not give nurses shift differential for working in these sort of dangerous wards? Because they really should. I used to work in a mental institution. It was hell. You really need to pay people a decent amount of money if you want them to deal with the potential of being injured all day. Places like mental institutions have high turnover because they don’t reward (pay) people enough to deal with what the job entails. My old job would take anyone with a pulse. Anyone. As long as you didn’t have a criminal record, they would hire you. This led to some shady people working with other vulnerable people, which made the patients lives so much harder, making the employees job harder, basically like a big cycle.

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shep_pat t1_iyrhz36 wrote

I don’t know how it works but it’s just sad in general. City agencies are short handed as are hospitals. Yet the pay isn’t keeping up with inflation or the cost of living

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fafalone t1_iyu89vg wrote

Sounds like they're missing out on good candidates desperate for a job by having a blanket ban on criminal records instead of only barring those whose specific offense provides a particular reason to think they're unsuitable for the job.

(In more civilized countries, records are sealed and employers submit a potential employees name to the police, who respond with a simple yes/no on whether they have an offense that disqualifies them from that specific job-- i.e. a sex offender wouldn't be allowed to work with kids or vulnerable adults, but would be able to get most other jobs, and a white collar fraudster would be able to work with kids, but not be allowed to work at a bank)

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iysbm0k wrote

Guess we'll have to pay them more! The horror.

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shep_pat t1_iysflha wrote

Imagine our medical bills. As if they weren’t high already

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