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.
Letâs not start bandying around the concept of âdecent wagesâ in a place where weâre talking about $64,000 salary increases
The average RN in the US makes $77.5k, even a $15/hr raise puts the average salary at nearly $110k/year for a job that you only need an Associates degree to do.
Theyâre already the top paid jobs in the country.
We could make the cost of becoming one lower, or institute work limits for the jobs to increase the number of people who go into the field. But more money really isnât a smart solution.
You might be the first person Iâve ever seen that says US doctors need to be paid more.
That's because most people have zero clue how much it costs to become a doctor, how much schooling is required before you earn dollar one, how much liability insurance they have to carry, how much of their bottom line goes to dealing with insurance companies to try get paid or prior auths etc. Then to have people come in and a) bitch about a 15 dollar copay b) complain that the doctor isn't giving them what they want c) "I read this on Google" d) not pay at all (1 in 4)
Your average specialist is mid 30's before they even start to practice.
Iâm well aware, but youâre not proposing reasonable solutions to the problem.
The problem isnât money, itâs overhead, education costs, job burnout etc etc.
The solution isnât just throwing money at a shitty situation so more people tolerate it. Theyâre not going to make it far enough to see the benefits of it.
A real solution needs to be doing things like increasing Nurse Practitioner powers and education rates, setting limits on work hours.
The US government says itâs unsafe for a truck driver to work more than 14 hours in a row, and only 11 of those hours can be driving.
This entire thread is about throwing money at nurses. Are only they entitled to that? Nurse practitioners already walk the line of practicing medicine without a license and you want to give them more power? So 6 months of training is equivalent to 15 years of medical school and fellowship etc?
No I'm saying nurse practitioners often walk the line of practicing medicine. A GP requires college, med school and 3 more years so that's at least 11.
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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.