Re:Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID d...
by maxerickson on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:45AM
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Because you are allowed to do the work if you are licensed. The cost of a nurse is conditioned on the licensed supply, not the willingness of Joe Programmer to do it for $800,000.
At the moment, if you chose to go into nursing, the choice wouldn't matter, because the licensing pipeline is full!
Re:Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID d...
by lotsofpulp on Sunday December 19, 2021 @09:05AM
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I agree with you that in the current situation of 1 to 2 years, my choice does not matter.
> The cost of a nurse is conditioned on the licensed supply, not the willingness of Joe Programmer to do it for $800,000.
The supply of a nurse is conditioned on cash flow prospects. If nursing paid more and had a history of having decent pay to lifestyle ratio, then there would have been more supply of nurses.
Obviously, the acute situation of today, I would not count. But when managing a society, and you pay rock bottom prices and lower quality of life for a couple decades to limit supply of healthcare workers so that you are running on razor thin margins, then the future where lack of healthcare workers in cases of emergency are inevitable.