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It just wasn't as utilized near as much as it is now. Nurse's are burned out with hospital greed and are realizing they can do the same work for better pay working for an agency rather than working directly for the hospital.

This problem isn't going to change anytime soon bc hospital corporations as a whole, aren't willing to adjust the pay rate for staff nurses.

Not true in Virginia. My wife worked for one of the big hospital groups here, quit and went to NYC for Covid as a traveler and ever since was one back here at home. Until this summer, the same hospital group offered her as much as she was making as a traveler - only catch is she's in a float pool for (5) local hospitals. With the great pay and benefits, I'm retiring a year earlier than I planned.

So maybe the hospitals are wising up.

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Posted by tigernurse

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Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:41 am to chrome_daddy

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Not true in Virginia. My wife worked for one of the big hospital groups here, quit and went to NYC for Covid as a traveler and ever since was one back here at home. Until this summer, the same hospital group offered her as much as she was making as a traveler - only catch is she's in a float pool for (5) local hospitals. With the great pay and benefits, I'm retiring a year earlier than I planned.

So maybe the hospitals are wising up.

this is what it is going to take to get nursing pay up where it needs to be.

and sadly, it is at the ultimate expense to the patients. there are so many young, inexperienced nurses at the bedside these days, being trained by other young inexperienced nurses.

While I still work ICU part time because I truly love that type of nursing, I left that position as my primary job, to be paid better and have less stress.

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