On: I’m the nurse who called 911 for help with staffin...

[jmclnx]

> deploying innovative ways to attract and retain team members

> Sign-on bonuses and loan forgiveness programs

> Staffing incentives and shift premiums

> Increasing investments in professional development and career pathways

Doing everything except what is really needed, Real Pay Raises. All Sign-on bonuses do is incentive people to job hop. If you pay enough, people will stay.

[kennend3 → jmclnx]

> If you pay enough, people will stay.

This is absolutely not true. Study after study have proven that there is a limit to the number of hours someone is willing to work.

The real solution is to increase the NUMBER of nurses. This means removing the artificial barriers to entry.

Their issue is BURNOUT and this is caused by staffing shortages and partly this is caused by artificial barriers to entry.

Train more nurses, alleviate the shortages.

[LorenPechtel → kennend3]

If you pay enough you can attract enough nurses that they aren't overworked and thus aren't prone to leaving.

[ncr100 → jmclnx]

> ... the fatigue and moral distress that is caused by working in a state of chronic crisis staffing levels, for a corporation that seems completely out of touch and apathetic to what is really happening in their beautiful new hospital.