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re: Nurse Shortages in Nola Metro? If There Is One, How Bad Is It?
Posted on 11/29/21 at 1:19 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 11/29/21 at 1:19 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I can say with confidence pay for new grads in NOLA is vastly better than in other states such as AL, TN, and TX.
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Posted on 11/29/21 at 1:38 pm to STEVED00
Well, they are forcing the nurses to get vaccinated so many quit.
If it were truly that bad, they would force nurses to quit and cause a shortage
If it were truly that bad, they would force nurses to quit and cause a shortage
Posted on 11/29/21 at 1:54 pm to STEVED00
Gentlemen, welcome to capitalism. If your area has a RN shortage then they aren’t paying enough. We are flush with RNs here in the Bay Area but we pay RNs 4-5 times what is paid in the southeast. This is literally supply and demand. The south pays shite and the working conditions are deplorable. They cannot attract help from other places and there are not enough RNs locally.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 1:57 pm to jennBN
Doing a quick google, the adjustment for cost of living is pretty much on par.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 2:03 pm to jennBN
A quick google search shows numerous articles about nurse shortages in San Francisco. LINK
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As the pandemic wears on, hospitals across the U.S. are having a harder time hiring and retaining nurses. San Francisco is no exception.
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Exhaustion and burnout have driven many nurses into retirement since the onset of the pandemic, exacerbating an existing shortage of nurses in the U.S. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, California faces the worst nursing shortage of any state with a projected deficit of 44,500 nurses by 2030.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 2:03 pm to fightin tigers
Depends on where you live. The cost of housing is increasing everywhere. Wonder how much the COLA for nurses was in greater NOLA?
Posted on 11/29/21 at 2:23 pm to jennBN
Just comparing the city listings themselves. Even in NOLA you can greatly reduce your cost by moving out the city.
Looking at jobs listings to compare starting pay.
Obviously there will be outlier offers.
Quality of life also plays in, but that is kindof a different discussion.
Looking at jobs listings to compare starting pay.
Obviously there will be outlier offers.
Quality of life also plays in, but that is kindof a different discussion.
This post was edited on 11/29/21 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 11/29/21 at 2:38 pm to STEVED00
Don’t know about how bad of a shortage but my niece is a nurse from Memphis and is doing travel work in NOLA for an ungodly amount of money. She has her paperwork in for a 3rd contract renewal at the same hospital.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 2:59 pm to OldCat55
Children's can barely staff the new ER that opened at their main campus.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 3:39 pm to STEVED00
Nursing shortages and new, unskilled nurses are the #1 problem in healthcare right now.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 3:48 pm to magicman534
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they quit and are traveling making triple their previous salary.
This is mostly what I've seen. Why work at an understaffed hospital for very little incentive when you can do the same job somewhere else making nearly 3x salary.
Some places are starting to take retention seriously ($20/hr diffs at some places in BHAM), but a lot of competition right now for good nurses.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 4:11 pm to HotTakes
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I can say with confidence pay for new grads in NOLA is vastly better than in other states such as AL, TN, and TX.
Define "vastly better"?
Posted on 11/29/21 at 4:11 pm to STEVED00
The more the government gets involved the longer your waits and stays will be.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 4:13 pm to jennBN
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Gentlemen, welcome to capitalism.
Wrong
Posted on 11/29/21 at 6:52 pm to Dragula
$26.00 an hour in Nashville and Birmingham vs. $35 an hour (base) in NOLA.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 7:06 pm to STEVED00
Friend who is a nurse that gives happy meds in ER told me that there was a shortage long before Covid. He is on contract and does well but nurses directly hired are treated like shiit by admin and MD's and paid like shiit too. If he were not a specialist RN he would be driving and Amazon Prime truck rather than be paid and treated like that
Posted on 11/29/21 at 7:08 pm to fightin tigers
Still better than being a nurse in Canada and why so many come down here for better pay and never have to worry about the hospital shutting down for a month or two at a time due budget cuts by government
Posted on 11/29/21 at 7:15 pm to STEVED00
I know a lot of nurses graduating from LSU and ULL go to Houston or Dallas to work because they an usually make an extra 15 to 20k a year working for Baylor, Methodist, MedicalCity, UT, or Hermann. It's not most but it makes a difference and why wouldn't they? Louisiana nurse pay is abysmal.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 7:27 pm to STEVED00
Yes there is. Our hospital has a unit closed and another capped at lower capacity because we can’t staff them. The most common reason for low morale among nursing staff in all of the facilities in which I have worked is dangerous nurse to patient ratios. Most of the public does not realize how dangerous this is for patients. We started losing staff to other occupations when administration began staffing leaner to increase profits - now they have even leaner staffing because nurses are leaving their careers. Now we are beginning to lose nurses and ancillary staff d/t vaccine mandates.
I would not let my family stay alone in a hospital if they were not savvy enough to recognize mistakes and advocate for themselves.
I would not let my family stay alone in a hospital if they were not savvy enough to recognize mistakes and advocate for themselves.
Posted on 11/29/21 at 7:33 pm to STEVED00
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No exemption plus testing option?
There is a testing option, but iit requires weekly testing at your own expense. This is not the inexpensive rapid test, either.
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