States warn of health care worker shortage as they prep for next pandemic

Let’s see, we have had a nursing shortage dating back to the mid 60’s. Salaries have not progressed in comparison to other occupations. Work schedules are basically 12 hour shifts or longer, plus they are the ones that are with the patients all the time.
Additionally, if they refused the untested vaccines, after already working through the initial pandemic onslaught, they were let go. Gee, I wonder why there ids a nursing shortage, after almost 70 years.
If you aren’t a nurse you really don’t understand.

My 2 cents: I saw this coming long before Covid. They kept reducing the number of nurses on the floor no matter the acutey of the patients,

You get what you pay for in life and when you have healthcare administrators without a lick of bedside care only looking at profits you often forget people. The time, energy, and requirements to earn a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) make us extremely marketable and when hospitals do not want to take care of us, we find other places to work. The army forced me into mandatory retirement because I had little interest at the end of my career learning to write outside of APA and thus did not promote to O5. Received the email while in the ICU taking care of a critically ill COVID patient (that later died). If you want quality healthcare you must put people over profits and I promise when you take care of your most expensive management cost (people), it will work itself out.