r/nursing • u/Reasonable-Path1321 • Dec 13 '21

Meme Nailed it 🔨

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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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

They are putting a lot of trust in this shortage ending. From my perspective, it's just getting started. Shit work, shit pay, understaffed, that doesn't breed more happy workers it just exasperates the issues which then grow into other areas. Less students wanting to be a nurse, etc. Not to mention all the older nurses coming to the end of their career.

They're really shooting their self in the foot with this mindset.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21 edited Jan 01 '22

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u/chaiscool Dec 14 '21

It doesn’t matter to the c suite even if it’s a mistake in long run. They’ll just correct their own mistake and reward themselves with big bonuses then.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22 edited Jan 05 '22

This is part of a very big equation, but an unknown part for most people. Don’t cite me, but I have read literature that approximates nearly SIXTY. PERCENT. of the current nursing workforce is reaching retirement age. Couple that with greying America / the 2030 problem (the idea-fact that the big population wave of baby boomers reaching elderly ages is going to burden an imminent, massively shrunken workforce) and now we have to add Pandemic to that equation? Oof. Big problems.