[joshgel]

It's really amazing to see travel nurses come back to work at a place they just left. They are now doing the same job as before, are getting paid almost twice as much with better schedules and are working next to people that they know and are friends with.

It's honestly surprising that more haven't taken the jump and is really shocking that hospitals aren't doing more to retain critical staff.

[zaptheimpaler]

Its hilarious that nursing shares this problem with the tech industry and probably with most other industries. Every company is extremely allergic to giving raises and is happy to let their workforce churn constantly. You would think they believe that experience has no value.

But on the hiring side, experience is one of the most widely accepted signals of value.

[TecoAndJix]

The hospitals have been asking Biden to put a stop to it: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077710203/hospitals-ask-bide...

[Sohcahtoa82]

I can only react with this face: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/112/480/Opo...

Help me understand this. Make it make sense...

1. Hospitals pay their nurses $X, which is way too low

2. Nurses quit because they're underpaid and overworked

3. Hospitals have a nurse staffing crisis and so pay travel nurses 2 * $X (or more!)

4. Hospitals are in a panic over the cost of travel nurses, yet instead of paying their nurses more to keep them around and eliminate the need for travel nurses, they ask the government to cap the cost of travel nurses

My mind is exploding over the ridiculousness of it.

[pc86]

It sounds nurses just need to be paid more, or travel nurses need to be paid less. Equilibrium is probably somewhere between the two extremes.

Apropos of nothing but why is the knee jerk reaction "we need executive action to fix this staffing problem?"

[lotsofpulp]

Why would travel nurses need to be paid less?

[pc86]

If wages equalized, it's unlikely they would all equalize to the top of the range. It's more likely to be somewhere in the top quartile or quintile.

[lotsofpulp]

Why would they equalize? I assume there is a premium required for not going back to one’s own home everyday.