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The nurse that helped save your life at ER might be on H1B getting paid $80k a year.
by rs186 1y ago
The nurse that helped save your life at ER might be on H1B getting paid $80k a year.
- jpadkins 1y agothe counterfactual is 'is there an equally qualified nurse who didn't get the position?' There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens.
- cyberax 1y agoBecause there aren't enough "equally qualified nurses". > There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens. No, there isn't. Even with the current AI mess, the unemployment for highly-qualified software engineers is 2.8%: https://www.ciodive.com/news/june-jobs-report-comptia-data-IT-labor-market/752354/ https://www.ciodive.com/news/june-jobs-report-comptia-data-I... The AI is now decimating the jobs for the recent CS graduates.
- jpadkins 1y agounder-employment != unemployment. I carefully selected my words. And you switched from nurses to highly-qualified engineers. qualified nurses are having to get jobs at retail, etc to survive. For some sectors, it's importing cheap labor (aka wage suppression).
- bamboozled 1y agoHmmm, so a nurse can come from any country with any level of English and work in a US hospital without re-certification? There is a smell to this claim…
- cyberax 1y agoThe same applies to nurses. The nurse shortage has been basically non-stop since 80-s: https://nursejournal.org/articles/the-us-nursing-shortage-state-by-state-breakdown/ https://nursejournal.org/articles/the-us-nursing-shortage-st...
- czl 1y agoLong term shortages are evidence of supply controls or price controls. If nurse compensation was allowed to rise to its natural level the shortages would solve themselves. High compensation pulls people into a profession. Suppressing compensation with imported labor cures a short term problem but creates a bigger long term problem.
- cyberax 1y agoIn this case, it's the evidence of the failing education system or misplaced incentives. You also are missing another possibility, the nurse jobs can just disappear and patients will be left with worse care.
- cogman10 1y agoThat nurse may have just done their 6th 12h shift as well. Which they have to do or risk deportation.
- aaronnw2 1y agoMaybe more talented Americans would become nurses if the pay met the demand.
- rs186 1y agoWe know that's not going to happen. What now?
- aianus 1y agoThey pay $150k for a foreign nurse and attract the best foreign nurses instead of the cheapest.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoEventually robots. Seriously, automation can eventually do a lot to make each nurse way more productive than they are.
- seb1204 1y agoWe know that the US is not the only country with shortage in healthcare workers. Most countries with an ageing population face this.
- mancerayder 1y agoDo we know what percentage of H1B's are NOT in the tech industry?
- sigwinch 1y agoNurses would be TN or in the past H-1C.