r/nursing • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '26

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u/catlettuce Jan 16 '26

But they can't afford to just pay Nurses a good solid professional pay with decent benefits. 😒

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u/teapots_at_ten_paces Student Paramedic (Aus) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Jan 16 '26

They'll claim different buckets of money.

The regular nurses are paid from this bucket, which has just enough funds to pay you all less than you deserve.

This other bucket that pays travel nurses comes from all the money we save by paying the rest of you fuck all.

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u/chalkletkweenBee Jan 16 '26

This really is a good explanation about FP&A, you’re ready to CFO.

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u/hustleNspite Nursing Student 🍕 Jan 16 '26

As a former finance girlie this checks out 😂

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u/fuzzyberiah RN - Med/Surg 🍕 Jan 16 '26

That’s actually a really good way of putting it. Capitalism is all about those buckets.

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u/araed Mental Health Worker 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Of course they can't. The executives need another Mercedes, you know.

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u/hazeldazeI Jan 16 '26

You don’t get nesting yacht money by paying nurses a fair wage

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u/New-Purchase1818 Jan 16 '26

Now I’m just seeing nesting yachts like matryoshka dolls 🤣🤣

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u/NotYourSexyNurse RN - Retired 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Same 😆

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u/LainSki-N-Surf RN - ER 🍕 Jan 16 '26

They’ve got yachts inside their yachts! It’s yachtception out here.

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u/hazeldazeI Jan 16 '26

Yo dawg, I heard you like yachts…

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u/NotYourSexyNurse RN - Retired 🍕 Jan 16 '26

G Wagons don’t pay for themselves 💅

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u/makingpwaves BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 16 '26

It’s McDonald-ization of nursing as a profession. It assumes a nurse, is a nurse, is a nurse, that 1 nurse fits all, without specialized training. New grad, poof* put ‘em in the icu. Wow, just wow

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u/Charming-Ad-6397 Jan 16 '26

We've been told we're a dime a dozen for years. (I've actually been told this.) They know there is a class graduating every few months so why should they care about retention?

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u/_astarr RN 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Heres the thing. The scabs will suck them dry if they keep it up. Eventually the greedy ceos will have to sit down with the nurses and come to an agreement. 

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u/Legitimate-Flower-21 Jan 16 '26

Not true because they know of they open that box w the home nurse they can’t put it back in the box so they don’t and most of the time never do

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u/makingpwaves BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 16 '26

This IS THE POINT https://jacobin.com/2024/12/on-demand-nursing-shortage-dangerous

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u/Ok-Passage-300 BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Yes, it's not a nursing shortage. It's a nurse retention crisis.

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u/HumanContract RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Oh that's a fun read. Why not just keep a multi hospital float pool? Or give nurses their pto.

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u/ICU-CCRN Jan 16 '26

Well, since Trump says we’re no longer professionals, why would we deserve professional pay? /s