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There is no shortage, my gf just finished nursing school and can't find a job and many of her peers are in the same boat. Hospitals don't want to hire nurses b
by jimbob45 7y ago
There is no shortage, my gf just finished nursing school and can't find a job and many of her peers are in the same boat.
Hospitals don't want to hire nurses because it loses them money. They only care about staying at the federally-mandated minimum staffing ratio, which they can skirt by only staffing adequate numbers when the oversight agencies come around. Seems like this is happening in every industry - CS appears to not want to hire either unless they absolutely are forced to fill a void. They'd rather just have one person do the work of two people since that person won't be able to find a job elsewhere anyway.
- phpnode 7y agoThis article is about the UK where the NHS has been chronically underfunded for the last decade.
- isostatic 7y agoThe NHS has been chronically underfunded for 40 years. In 2007, before the crash, after 10 years of New Labour, the U.S. spent 15% of its GDP on healthcare. German 10%, the Netherlands 9%. The UK spent 7.4%. In fact it's over the last 10 years that the UK has begun to catch up with the rest of Europe. http://imgur.com/mUI9oWil.png http://imgur.com/mUI9oWil.png
- barry-cotter 7y agoLife Expectancy at Birth Netherlands 81.6 U.K. 81.2 Germany 81.1 USA 78.6 https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...
- isostatic 7y agoWhich just goes to show how superior the NHS is. It’s still underfunded though.
- DanBC 7y agoNurses are on the Shortage Occupation List so the UK government (the one with the hostile environment for immigration) wants immigrant nurses. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-ru...