[kolanos]

> That's not an option. Hospitals in many were already understaffed before the pandemic. And the pandemic has caused such a severe worker shortage that traveling RNs are getting paid upwards of $200/hr in remote parts of the USA.

How did this understaffing happen?

> More than 260 hospitals and health systems furloughed workers in the last year, and many others implemented layoffs.

[0]: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/20-hospitals-l...

[mywittyname]

As someone whose partner is a med-surg nurse, and whose extended friend circle contains a lot of current and (mostly)former nurses, that post is not really the case. That's like saying that the shortage of software engineers is down to InfoSys having a bunch of IT layoffs.

The big issues are: the job sucks, the patients suck, the insurance companies suck, the hospital administration sucks. It's a hard, thankless job, where you get shit on all day by everyone, figuratively and literally, and for not much pay. Pre-COVID, pay was maybe $30-35/hr for most floor jobs. Or you could get an hospital office job, making more than that working a basic 9-5, no shit, no working holidays, no lawsuits (due to bone-headed coworkers fucking up), no feeling like a waiter, or being groped by patients.

Nursing is a terrible career anymore.