Alan - was reading my Mother Jones (M. Betancourt, 9-10/2023, Volume 48, Number 5, pp. 8-10.) and there is an article on Nursing jobs and the use of “TRAPs” (Training Repayment Agreement Provisions) for enforcing retention of new grads and new hires, which much be repaid if they leave the job before a specified number of months or years. This cost adding to their already heavy burden of student loan repayment. And the story includes a few horror stories. Thought you might be interested in knowing about this additional assault on the nursing profession.
Thank you. I will make use of this. There have been problems when the facility the practitioner is working at closes. But this is a new wrinkle. Thank you.
Thank you for an excellent overview of the nursing profession and the challenges we face.
What the BLS article doesn’t cover - Diploma programs are being phased out, as the complexity of patient’s care require a more extensive grounding in the sciences. There are fewer than 100 left in the US, and most hiring agencies will require a commitment to completing a BS in Nursing within a certain block of time. https://www.nursingexplorer.com/diploma
A BSN is considered the ideal standard for nursing education, and has been encouraged for decades.
I want to encourage ALL your reader to share this particular Substack article widely! The life you save could be a family member’s or friend’s!
Thank you for this post that highlights our need to support nurses. It applies to many of those in the workforce who are essential for delivering our healthcare. Today's newsletter reminds me of watching the stresses of nursing pile up on a friend of many years, who is a retired nurse.
As nurses get older, understaffing gets more stressful. They have life and death responsibility over patients. For instance, they need to deliver the correct doses of medications on time. As the stresses build on aging nurses who carry with them valuable experience, they become overwhelmed and can no longer keep up. But first, there's the terror of making medical errors. There's all that time on your feet and dealing with the messy business of caring for sick people who may be incontinent or have other similar needs. Those factors caused my friend to retire earlier than she might have done with adequate or better staffing. And, it put her under the financial hardship of not being able to work longer in her career.
So, her workplace paid the price of understaffing by losing her and it caused financial hardship where this was preventable.
Alan - a new disturbing article here.
https://nursejournal.org/articles/nursing-medical-students-dont-plan-to-treat-patients/?fbclid=IwAR1vMy-hHCejszgtTg9_Wbc8f_z1V7ibGHzuqNafWT6biIfwuiC0faQZf0M_aem_AbLmqVNmGYNgD1pwvxABinh1-2heZQip64ZUBb-64gpL1cn69YnB-xh-1ss3ABC7rF4
Thank you. I appreciate you sending the article to me. I know I will use this and share amongst our group.
Another article about nurses and the workforce issues affecting care in America.
https://apple.news/AkuR6ZOkpQhqAuKVs7TmQWQ
Thank you!! I really appreciate you making sure I stay current!!!
Alan - was reading my Mother Jones (M. Betancourt, 9-10/2023, Volume 48, Number 5, pp. 8-10.) and there is an article on Nursing jobs and the use of “TRAPs” (Training Repayment Agreement Provisions) for enforcing retention of new grads and new hires, which much be repaid if they leave the job before a specified number of months or years. This cost adding to their already heavy burden of student loan repayment. And the story includes a few horror stories. Thought you might be interested in knowing about this additional assault on the nursing profession.
Thank you. I will make use of this. There have been problems when the facility the practitioner is working at closes. But this is a new wrinkle. Thank you.
Thank you for an excellent overview of the nursing profession and the challenges we face.
What the BLS article doesn’t cover - Diploma programs are being phased out, as the complexity of patient’s care require a more extensive grounding in the sciences. There are fewer than 100 left in the US, and most hiring agencies will require a commitment to completing a BS in Nursing within a certain block of time. https://www.nursingexplorer.com/diploma
A BSN is considered the ideal standard for nursing education, and has been encouraged for decades.
I want to encourage ALL your reader to share this particular Substack article widely! The life you save could be a family member’s or friend’s!
Thank you again!
Karen Brown, RN, PhD. CNE
Alan,
Thank you for this post that highlights our need to support nurses. It applies to many of those in the workforce who are essential for delivering our healthcare. Today's newsletter reminds me of watching the stresses of nursing pile up on a friend of many years, who is a retired nurse.
As nurses get older, understaffing gets more stressful. They have life and death responsibility over patients. For instance, they need to deliver the correct doses of medications on time. As the stresses build on aging nurses who carry with them valuable experience, they become overwhelmed and can no longer keep up. But first, there's the terror of making medical errors. There's all that time on your feet and dealing with the messy business of caring for sick people who may be incontinent or have other similar needs. Those factors caused my friend to retire earlier than she might have done with adequate or better staffing. And, it put her under the financial hardship of not being able to work longer in her career.
So, her workplace paid the price of understaffing by losing her and it caused financial hardship where this was preventable.