Posted on 01/28/2022 5:29:41 AM PST by buckalfa
The federal government needs to be more proactive in alleviating healthcare workforce shortages, Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, wrote in a Jan. 27 letter on the organization's website.
In the letter, Mr. Pollack wrote the dire workforce shortages the healthcare industry is facing are projected to get worse. He wrote that by the end of 2022, the industry is set to lose 500,000 nurses, mostly through retirement. In addition, because of shortages in teaching staff and difficulties with classroom space, nursing schools had to turn away more than 80,000 qualified applicants in 2019.
He suggested four actions the federal government and policymakers should take to help alleviate the crisis:
Increase support for faculty and administrators of nursing schools to educate the next generation of nurses.
Provide more loan forgiveness programs and increase scholarships for workers in the healthcare industry.
Lift the cap on Medicare-funded physician residency programs.
Expedite visas of highly skilled foreign workers.
shockingly, I don’t see where it says this in the Constitution.
They may want to think about getting rid of the mandate...
A#1: Stop firing health care workers who won’t take the fauxccines.
How about “Get the hell out of the way!”
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This is actually a good idea. I would add guidance in High School to students who may want to pursue this career. Th problem here once again is our failed K-12 system. So again, reforms are waaay overdue.
The federal government took over medicine and messed it up. They did it with medicare and it’s expansion, then Obamacare. They prevented physician involvement by banning them from owning hospitals and insurance companies, but the others could monopolize and own physicians.
The answers these socialist have are not only more government involvement, but are detrimental to America:
Increase support for faculty and administrators of nursing schools to educate the next generation of nurses.
There is no shortage of nurses, there is a shortage of hospitals that can treat them with respect. They continue to blame something that isn’t true.
Provide more loan forgiveness programs and increase scholarships for workers in the healthcare industry.
Won’t help. Because a starting Nurse makes about the same as someone working at Chick Fillet. Why take out loans and go to school, risk your licence and family for 21 dollars an hour. Loans aren’t the problem, reimbursement for the job is.
Lift the cap on Medicare-funded physician residency programs.
More doctors means more waste. Especially foreign doctors, and Medicare knows it. Training more doctors won’t fix it, because they gravitate now to fields wherein they have ‘quality of life’ and ‘shifts’. We, like other socialized nations, will be short of surgeons soon.
Expedite visas of highly skilled foreign workers.
When you can’t out source for labor, just bring them in and destroy the American who paid for his or her education!!!! That makes perfect sense. Sure, that’s the ticket. We have been doing this craziness for 3 decades and it isn’t helping our culture or our country.
This clown is pretty Stupid for being a CEO of Hospitals, All he needs to do to END this problem is BAN ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEE’S from being Treated or Admitted to Every one of his Hospitals, when they start DYING in the parking Lot, this crap will end.
Hospitals also need to examine and reform their skill mix and staffing. Why employ all BSN nurses when RN’s with two year degrees can adequately and safely perform most nursing functions. Taking it a step further could not a LPN handle many mundane nursing chores. Hospital administrators need to rethink their ego trip mantra that more education is always better and professional nursing associations need to get out of the constraint of trade business.
Totally agree
Yes, that’s step #1 of course.
But there’s also the most common free market solution to a labor shortage that they seem oblivious to: raise wages.
And there it is folks.
Replace us with more non Americans.
I am a BSN educated nurse. That degree does not give you clinical competence on the floor. It is actual hands on experience that makes someone be a good nurse.. Hospitals getting rid of LPNs and two year degree RNs was a mistake. The other mistake was the12 hour shift which really winds up being a 14 hour shift due to poor staffing. Nurses in their 50s cannot be on their feet for 14 hours, so they leave bedside nursing. A mix of shifts, some part time 8 hour shifts would help.
Short staffing is really the main problem. Short staffing burned out nurses before covid, so there was no flexibility when covid hit. You can educate a whole slew of new nurses, but if they are working in a short staffed position, they will leave nursing.
The last issue is workplace violence. No nurse should put up with being assaulted by a patient. It is also wrong to blame the nurse for an assault, because they did not de escalate a violent patient prior to the assault. You hit a nurse, you go to jail.
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they also left out illegal immigration, mandatory vaccinations, and global warming as important issues facing the nursing shortage. Knowing it’s Becker, they should have also mentioned white supremacy and misogamy as significant issues.
you seemed to be on a pretty good rant but then you wrote: Because a starting Nurse makes about the same as someone working at Chick Fillet.
Then I realized that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Unless Chick-Fillet pays their employees $80,000 + per year starting pay.
Starting Nurse salaries, up until recently, was about 21-23 dollars an hour. So, they were making about 50-60k a year starting out. Chick Fillet pays 19.50 an hour I am told. Ask around about Nurse starting salaries, especially before COVID, and ask why all of them are going travelers now. They have been locked into poor pay for years.
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