Re: Nurses experiencing decrease in hours/ layoffs?
soofisahab wrote:
have you, the WORKING nurse, experienced any derimental effects from the gasping economy?
... I wonder if the nursing job market will become saturated with new graduates?
... nationalization of healthcare thing....wages will take a nosedive!
i haven't seen any decrease in hours at my job, but i'm the only mental health nurse in my facility (corrections) and i'm rarely caught up. they did cut back recently on staffing levels on evening and night shifts.
i think the nursing shortage still exists. it's just that no one will hire for this short season. i expect it to turn around by the end of the year. people need health care, and the baby boomers are aging, and all that.
i'm not so sure about nursing wages going down if we are nationalized. i think they will lower the wages of all the specialists and surgeons and highly paid administrators. but nurses don't make that much money in comparison to the ones i listed, and nurses are generally considered to be solidly in the middle of the working-middle class. i think a nationalized system would actually protect people like us.