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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