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minus-square@mipadaitulinkEnglish6•5 months agoThe nursing shortage is exacerbated by understaffed facilities. Nurses quit because they’re expected to do too much with very little help. Larger staffing requirements will help this problem, and make it so nurses are not so overworked. You can’t wait until there’s no more shortage to improve working conditions, because the poor working conditions are the bulk of the problem.
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish0•5 months agoThe bulk of the problem is becoming a nurse (or anything that requires college) is ridiculously expensive
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•5 months agoFor real. There should be full tuitions for nursing school for anyone who can keep their grades up. Same for medical school. We need more doctors and nurses. We shouldn’t be turning people away just because they don’t have money.
minus-square@givesomefuckslinkEnglish0•5 months agoNot just “don’t have money” they don’t want to gamble decades of debt on if they’ll both graduate and find and keep a well paying job post graduation. It used to be that everyone thought it was worth it, now people say it’s not. Like, when you think about, putting that decision on a teenager is pretty fucked. Like, we just expect them to decide and commit to their entire career path before they’ve ever worked more than a part time job in highschool? Education is an investment in societies future, it’s why fixing it benefits all of us.
The nursing shortage is exacerbated by understaffed facilities. Nurses quit because they’re expected to do too much with very little help.
Larger staffing requirements will help this problem, and make it so nurses are not so overworked.
You can’t wait until there’s no more shortage to improve working conditions, because the poor working conditions are the bulk of the problem.
The bulk of the problem is becoming a nurse (or anything that requires college) is ridiculously expensive
For real. There should be full tuitions for nursing school for anyone who can keep their grades up. Same for medical school.
We need more doctors and nurses. We shouldn’t be turning people away just because they don’t have money.
Not just “don’t have money” they don’t want to gamble decades of debt on if they’ll both graduate and find and keep a well paying job post graduation.
It used to be that everyone thought it was worth it, now people say it’s not.
Like, when you think about, putting that decision on a teenager is pretty fucked.
Like, we just expect them to decide and commit to their entire career path before they’ve ever worked more than a part time job in highschool?
Education is an investment in societies future, it’s why fixing it benefits all of us.