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A physician shortage is not a good thing, but I'm closer to the nurses shortage; my wife is a nurse. Nurses get it from all sides: The healthcare administrator
by linsomniac 3y ago
A physician shortage is not a good thing, but I'm closer to the nurses shortage; my wife is a nurse. Nurses get it from all sides: The healthcare administrators never put enough on duty, similarly they don't have enough CNAs helping them, and the patients and families can be pretty abusive.
It's really a game of numbers: You should have 1 nurse for every X patients, and Y CNAs for every nurse. But the common story is that there are always games being played with increasing the number of patients and decreasing the number of CNAs, leaving nurses having to do more things for more patients. This directly, negatively impacts patient outcome.
- algkkb 3y agoI would've been a CNA out of high school instead of working retail if it would have paid me more than retail. Fact is, you're wiping ass for minimum wage and obviously not a lot of people are going to want do that. I'd say start with wages if I was addressing the issue.