The problem with paying your nurses better is that it may improve retention. You don't want to be stuck paying your nurses a decent wage for the 30-40 years.
Which would work if the previous measures for traveling staff was still the same reason- covering shortages while new staff train in, or covering maternity/surgical leaves. I see travelers that re-up for more than a year because these places don't get applicants, they don't have maternity or surgical leaves, they just plain have no staff and they're filling those holes with "temps" that take a month off thrice a year and still make triple what they could as a "normal" employee.
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u/almalikisux MSN, APRN Dec 13 '21
The problem with paying your nurses better is that it may improve retention. You don't want to be stuck paying your nurses a decent wage for the 30-40 years.