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

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You don’t have to have the intelligence of a brain surgeon to be a teacher or a nurse, but the quality of both of those has a huge impact on our most vulnerable people. Increasing salary allows for selection of the top talent.

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Agreed. Obviously RNs don’t have the same level of education as doctors, but it’s undeniable that without RNs our healthcare system would crumble. And right now, the healthcare industry is losing with how many RNs are quitting left and right. So something needs to be done to retain the current amount of RNs and try to get more people into the field.

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I dunno, buddy has a kid with an Eastern Euro chick, and she's nuttier than squirrel shite. Tried to break down his door with an axe

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But who cares right? As long as she has nice tits, a nice arse, and a beautiful pussy then that at least makes her bullshite tolerable.

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not to derail the thread, but are nurses/teachers/cops jobs any different today than they were 30 years ago?

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Idk, you would have to ask some old-timers.

If we stopped inventing reasons to go to the hospital and government stopped subsidizing the medical field, there wouldn't be a nursing shortage.

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Hehe...AI won't clean you up when you shite yourself in the hospital bed.

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If a hospital company is raking in $20 billion a year, they should be able to afford to pay their nurses at least $120,000 a year

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So just revenue tells you that? Revenue does not equal profit. Also a hospital company has multiple large and small hospitals. They more they have the more “Revenue” they have. Revenue is just about of work they do and does not equate to profit.

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When you factor in COL and California taxes that reduces it to at least $200,000 which would be equivalent to $130,000-$150,000 in Deep South states like Texas and Louisiana

Everything is bigger in California which is why the salaries are so inflated there

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Holy schnikes! Obviously you don't have to be very intelligent to be a nurse.

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Residents are in training and have a attending MD monitoring their interactions. They are overseeing it all. When the residents round on the patients, who is in the room with them? When residents are on call, who do they phone at 3 am with questions on a course of action? Who goes in at 3 am when situations come up? The attending. Don’t spin this shite that residents are on their own making decisions and nurses make medical/medicinal decisions to save patients from residents.

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Physicians and nurses bring totally different, but complementary skill sets to healthcare. While you are accurate that physicians are much better qualified to practice medicine, your comment that I quoted above is absolute bullshite. In my 40 years of practice as an RN, I can tell you that it is a well documented fact that residents make many on the spot decisions and perform many procedures without direct physician oversight. While there may be someone available to them to question, this doesn’t mean that they pursue this direction. There are many, many instances when nurses intervene and residents are grateful for their experienced advice. I remember catching a resident’s mistake in time for him to change a prescription in the ER when I was a student. Neither of us told anyone else and he thanked me for catching it. And yes, there are documented statistics about increased medical errors in areas surrounding teaching hospitals in the months after new residents begin practicing. I feel sure they would be even higher if some of the errors weren’t committed in the presence of good nurses who advocated for their patients and prevented them from causing harm.

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by the time you’re two years into your job, and if you’re willing to work for it, then 100k or more is there for the taking.

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Not as a staff nurse in pretty much all specialties, unless you're working lots of OT.

ETA in Louisiana of course.