There isn’t a shortage of nurses there is a shortage of of nurses who will work bedside care, the hospital don’t provide enough support staff for nurses and as soon as the patient load goes down they cut staff, retirement one year ago my last three years in a emergency department nights I was able to have a dinner break maybe five times what career what a to put up with that. The joke is your manager will buy pizza for the staff when it’s busy but you can’t leave your patients 🍕🍕😢 that’s the truth

From what I've heard, it's not so much the nurses not wanting a job that it is the scheduling harassment. I was told by two different people who used to work as nurses that they loved the job, just that whoever was in charge of the schedules kept changing their schedules to times they COULDN'T work. One had young kids, one was a toddler at the time, and they are a single parent. It started out with times they agreed upon. Later, the times they were scheduled ended up being changed to times they couldn't work. When questioned why their schedules were changed to times they couldn't work, they were told that Seniority's choices came first and that they had to work the schedule assigned. Essentially, both of these people were Forced out of the nursing department because their schedules kept changing on whims of management and Seniority.

Racism, long shifts, low pay, poor nurse management, difficulty taking time off/vacation are just some of the main reasons for the shortage.

IHC doesn’t pay them what they should. It’s not too hard to figure out. You guys go ahead and gaslight though

This seems hard to believe considering how many nurses students there are. I feel like the thing most girls say nowadays is I'm going to be a nurse.