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

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Nurses are overpaid if anything. My mom has taught nursing for 25 years. Her school is in like 75th percentile board passage rate, so a good bit above average. She shows me exams. Lots of these soon to be nurses are damn near retarded. I could have done that coursework in high school. Nursing is by no means an intellectually vigorous field. Engineers, scientists, physicians, could all piss on nurses.

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You are so full of shite. Where does your mom teach, some technical school LVN program? Many of the people who start out in a respected BSN program don’t make it through the second or third year, much less to graduation.
Some of these responses are ridiculous- how many of you are responding from the perspective of an experienced RN who actually knows the inside answers about nursing staffing, availability, compensation and intellectual requirements?
Lots of self appointed experts on the profession on here!