Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by mfer on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:49AM (#31181519)

I've spoken with nurses who've had a variety of other jobs at other types of places. They are consistent in telling me that working as a nurse is a worse environment in the way they are treated.

The example stories they have shared are the type of thing I can't relate to and I've worked in software, general engineering, food service, construction, and tech support (I answered calls for 3 years).

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by omegaham on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:41PM (#31183230)

This is also my experience being married to a nurse. Any story I have about a boss, coworker, or client being a jerk, she has about five stories about someone being bad enough that I'd already be shooting resumes toward anyone who will take me.

She's been punched in the face by a patient, she's had coworkers who sabotage each other due to personal vendettas, she's had bosses go on racist tirades in meetings, and on and on and on. As I remind my wife whenever she has a particularly awful day, there's a reason why the classic NP-hard CS problem is literally named the Nurse Scheduling Problem[1]. And yes, she's considering a career change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_scheduling_problem

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by bagels on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:58PM (#31183478)

Yes, my wife has also been punched working in the hospital. She now does nursing by phone where people are still really awful to her, but at least they can't assault her.

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