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

Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by jupp0r on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:20AM (#31189021)

I always wanted to understand how hospitals get away with treating their employees like that. In any other industry, people would not accept it. This is the industry where (arguably) I'd want people to be _most_ relaxed and _least_ overworked because human lives and wellbeing is on the line. Why don't airlines do that to their pilots? Should there be similar regulation in nursing?

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by mrep on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:28AM (#31190415)

Same reason game developers get treated like shit compared to many other developers. People are willing to put up with more shit to do a job they find rewarding.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by jupp0r on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:04AM (#31201293)

So you are saying it's stockholm syndrome?

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by mrep on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:05AM (#31203019)

Not at all. I'm saying people consider all aspects of a job when choosing whether to leave which includes pay, working conditions, personal satisfaction from doing the job... Healthcare people probably like the feeling of helping people in need and are willing to accept the tradeoff of worse working conditions over choosing another job which does not have as much personal satisfaction of helping people but better working conditions.

Game developers are likely the people who love video games and so are willing to put up with the worse working conditions in order to work on the games they love.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by jupp0r on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:34PM (#31217207)

That makes a lot of sense, thanks!

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