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

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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.

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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.