Comments on: America’s Nursing Shortage by the Numbers http://blog.soliant.com/healthcare-news/americas-nursing-shortage-by-the-numbers/ Healthcare Job Information, Resources, and Trends Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Vasant http://blog.soliant.com/healthcare-news/americas-nursing-shortage-by-the-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Vasant Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:47:36 +0000 http://blog.soliant.com/?p=733#comment-402 Niel You are indeed well informed and astute in your comment contrary to your disclaimer :-). It is another confounding aspect of US healthcare - though a significant chunk of the jobs created in the last 12 months have been in this sector, trained nurses are finding it difficult to get jobs given budget cuts. Alongside the shortage, that is bizarre but the only hope is that hiring will increase as the economy progresses and more so when there is some clarity as to the reforms. Niel

You are indeed well informed and astute in your comment contrary to your disclaimer :-) . It is another confounding aspect of US healthcare – though a significant chunk of the jobs created in the last 12 months have been in this sector, trained nurses are finding it difficult to get jobs given budget cuts. Alongside the shortage, that is bizarre but the only hope is that hiring will increase as the economy progresses and more so when there is some clarity as to the reforms.

]]> By: Neil http://blog.soliant.com/healthcare-news/americas-nursing-shortage-by-the-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Neil Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:45:40 +0000 http://blog.soliant.com/?p=733#comment-394 I may be uneducated in the matter, but from all the nurses I've talked to they say it's damn difficult to get a job, especially in a hospital. The reason being, supposedly, are budget cuts. More accurately, the hospitals are too cheap to hire more nurses since they don't want to pay more salaries, then overwork the staffed nurses by making them take on a more than reasonable number of patients. It's one big capitalistic crock. And what with the "shortage of nurses" you'd think they'd make nursing school a little more affordable. My friend just graduated out of an LVN program and is now 60,000 in the hole in debt. This whole healthcare system needs some overhauling, and NOT Obama's kind. That's my 2 cents, up to the rest of the world to make it worth a dime. I may be uneducated in the matter, but from all the nurses I’ve talked to they say it’s damn difficult to get a job, especially in a hospital. The reason being, supposedly, are budget cuts. More accurately, the hospitals are too cheap to hire more nurses since they don’t want to pay more salaries, then overwork the staffed nurses by making them take on a more than reasonable number of patients. It’s one big capitalistic crock. And what with the “shortage of nurses” you’d think they’d make nursing school a little more affordable. My friend just graduated out of an LVN program and is now 60,000 in the hole in debt. This whole healthcare system needs some overhauling, and NOT Obama’s kind. That’s my 2 cents, up to the rest of the world to make it worth a dime.

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