Following years of abuse from executives, long hours, hazardous working conditions, and a general lack of respect, nearly a million nurses are planning to leave the profession over the next few years.
It's a potential public health disaster, if only something could be done, like cutting executive salaries and administrative overhead and spend it on improving working conditions for the workers.
Yeah, I know, that's Pinko thinking:
The critical nursing shortage in the United States is going to get worse — much worse — according to results of a comprehensive National Council of State Boards of Nursing and National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers study released April 13.
About 800,000 nurses say they intend to leave the workforce by 2027, according to the study. To put this number in perspective, consider that approximately 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic — a fact that has already sounded alarm bells throughout U.S. healthcare. Combined, these numbers equate to one-fifth of the 4.5 million nurses in the workforce today.
"While we anticipated there would be a loss in the number of nurses in the workforce due to the pandemic, we did not expect to see data that clearly indicates we are headed towards a national health care crisis," Maryann Alexander, PhD, RN, chief officer of nursing regulation at the NCSBN, told Becker's.
"Most disconcerting and apart from any other data collected, our study indicates that of the 800,000 nurses with an intent to leave the workforce in the next five years, 24 percent of them are new, younger nurses," she said. "This is dramatically different from past surveys that have indicated that 'nurses with an intent to leave in the next five years' were of or nearing retirement age."
A core principal of American business management is what in less enlightened times, "Eating your seed corn."
Get a few more bucks by burning out your highly skilled workforce, and get your inflated stock options.
It's not a sustainable way to run a society.
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Yes, but I'll be gone, you'll be gone.
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