Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
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Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
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Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#2A family friend was talking to a doctor who was considering quitting.
The reason why, at least for that doctor, wasn't really the stress from patients. It was all the damned paperwork and the stress that created.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#3The survey sample was 200 RNs in the USA.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#4A family friend was talking to a doctor who was considering quitting. The reason why, at least for that doctor, wasn't really the stress from patients. It was all the damned paperwork and the stress that created.
I've heard a lot of the same from teachers.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#5A family friend was talking to a doctor who was considering quitting. The reason why, at least for that doctor, wasn't really the stress from patients. It was all the damned paperwork and the stress that created.
My primary care doctor dropped me a few years back. He said his solo practice couldn't handle the paperwork of having so many patients so he went to just seeing patients for his specialty.
He was admittedly older and had never particularly embraced computers and so forth.
(And then my new PCP retired during the pandemic.)
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#6U.S. nursing salaries relative to average U.S. wages are above the OECD average: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2017-58-en...
So pay isn't the problem.
The U.S. is also above the OECD average for the number of nurses per 1000 population: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334515420/figure/fi...
So staffing isn't the problem either.
The U.S. is below the OECD average for the number of doctors per 1000 population: https://www.nurses.co.uk/Images/Blog/media/ddad9fa9-b06d-43d...
If nurses could work a regular 40 hours a week and be paid more, as they would like, the additional money and staffing need to come from somewhere. In the United States, we've decided that private hospitals could have the right to exist. Most nurses are thus beholden to a free market. So the question is why other hospitals aren't trying to poach nurses with better wages and schedules. The reason may be that the supply of nurses remains large enough that hospitals don't feel pressured to make these concessions. The business model of hospitals is also drastically different from that of, e.g., tech companies. Tech companies can afford to pay their employees outrageous salaries because it is possible for one software engineer to create a product that will generate $100M in revenue. A nurse's labor has a cap on how much economic value it can generate. Hence why nursing salaries are constrained.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#7High stress environment, stagnant wages unless you're a travel nurse, underappreciated during the pandemic, and having friends turn on you because they associate you with some crazy conspiracy theory. These are all reasons I've heard of career nurses quitting and going into other industries.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#8The survey sample was 200 RNs in the USA.
That's plenty so long as the sample is random
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#9Perhaps allowing modern MBAs to cost optimize most every single thing we do isn't the best way to assure mid and long term security and profitability.
Re: Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
#10The survey sample was 200 RNs in the USA.
I wish there was some law requiring surveying companies to fully disclose their method of contact and compensation. I can absolutely see an employee looking to leave their job being more receptive to taking a survey. Those happy with their jobs are not as likely to respond to third-party entities like "Hospital IQ" contacting them. Maybe the survey company masked this survey as a "pre-screen" to finding new jobs! We will never know. The process of recruiting survey participants has GREAT implications on the results.