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

Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by t-3 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:10PM (#31182747)

Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:13PM (#31182792)

> Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.

“Nurses” can be used to mean many things (CNAs, LVNs/LPNs, RNs) but this is specifically RNs, who, make much more than that, generally (median $77.6k/yr) https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/registered-nurses....

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:18PM (#31182860)

> median $77.6k/yr

Given the amount of school a nurse must have, that’s low.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by ejb999 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:11PM (#31183635)

2 years of school to be an RN, 4 for BSN - it's not a lot of school, it's an average amount of school at most.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:58PM (#31184270)

The point is that I know nurses that make 200k a year and still complain about the workload. More nurses and better hours is the solution. Meanwhile the trend is to make it more and more difficult to become a nurse and higher and higher for hospitals to have nurses

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by ejb999 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:10PM (#31183619)

>>Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr.

Not even close if you are talking about the USA (and actual nurses, not CNA's or MAs) - starting pay for 2 year RN degrees near me are about 55-65K, and you easily go over 100K in a few years.

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