re: If nurses across the US simply got paid more then we wouldn’t have a nursing shortage

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I’m just amazed hospitals have been as stubborn as they have been. The nurses called their bluff and the hospitals lost, but still are refusing to take their medicine. They continue to shell out to the nursing agency companies out of spite it seems

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There is a happy medium between renumeration and patient ratio that many nurses are willing to accept, and that has been sorely tested, especially by for-profit hospital system conglomerates who have sought to extract maximum profit.

Hospitals have ratcheted up the number of patients that each nurse is responsible for, in some instances to dangerous levels.

Add in Covid bedside burnout, and traveler-flation, and there is absolutely a bedside nursing shortage.

And there will continue to be one for the foreseeable future as the baby-boomer generation interfaces at an increasingly higher and higher rate with the hospital system.

Hospitals *should* have began bumping up pay for bedside nurses at the beginning of Covid, as that would have kept many more at the bedside and/or away from travel nursing.