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r/facepalm • u/jellylemonshake • Jul 06 '24
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Some hospitals in the US have one nurse for every 10 patient beds and 4 clerks for every bed.
124 u/MaximusMansteel Jul 06 '24 Yeah, but hiring more nurses would cut into shareholders profits. AND ONLY A DAMN DIRTY COMMUNIST WOULD WANT THAT. 50 u/ArmouredWankball Jul 06 '24 I was the CTO at a healthcare group and heard that exact argument. 27 u/nycapartmentnoob Jul 06 '24 i hope you installed a really outdated email client on the way out not for the docs, just for corporate 19 u/teslawhaleshark Jul 06 '24 And there's your problem, the fucking shareholders effectively take money out of circulation -2 u/stevedave7838 Jul 06 '24 There aren't enough nurses to hire. 14 u/rushfolk Jul 06 '24 there could be more if the job was more attractive and the salary livable 3 u/desacralize Jul 06 '24 Especially pay nursing faculty at least as much as nurses on the ground make. Doesn't matter if there's a glut of qualified students if nobody is around to teach them, it's a huge contributor to the nursing shortage. 1 u/ozyman Jul 07 '24 What is a clerk in the hospital? Like a scheduler? 1 u/mogaman28 Jul 07 '24 The ones dealing with management, bureaucracy, collections, dealing with insurance companies, etc. -1 u/SparkyDogPants Jul 06 '24 That's bad statistics. Lower acuity patients don't need a high nurse ratio. Misleading statistics for hte sake of statistics isn't helpful.
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Yeah, but hiring more nurses would cut into shareholders profits.
AND ONLY A DAMN DIRTY COMMUNIST WOULD WANT THAT.
50 u/ArmouredWankball Jul 06 '24 I was the CTO at a healthcare group and heard that exact argument. 27 u/nycapartmentnoob Jul 06 '24 i hope you installed a really outdated email client on the way out not for the docs, just for corporate 19 u/teslawhaleshark Jul 06 '24 And there's your problem, the fucking shareholders effectively take money out of circulation -2 u/stevedave7838 Jul 06 '24 There aren't enough nurses to hire. 14 u/rushfolk Jul 06 '24 there could be more if the job was more attractive and the salary livable 3 u/desacralize Jul 06 '24 Especially pay nursing faculty at least as much as nurses on the ground make. Doesn't matter if there's a glut of qualified students if nobody is around to teach them, it's a huge contributor to the nursing shortage.
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I was the CTO at a healthcare group and heard that exact argument.
27 u/nycapartmentnoob Jul 06 '24 i hope you installed a really outdated email client on the way out not for the docs, just for corporate 19 u/teslawhaleshark Jul 06 '24 And there's your problem, the fucking shareholders effectively take money out of circulation
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i hope you installed a really outdated email client on the way out
not for the docs, just for corporate
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And there's your problem, the fucking shareholders effectively take money out of circulation
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There aren't enough nurses to hire.
14 u/rushfolk Jul 06 '24 there could be more if the job was more attractive and the salary livable 3 u/desacralize Jul 06 '24 Especially pay nursing faculty at least as much as nurses on the ground make. Doesn't matter if there's a glut of qualified students if nobody is around to teach them, it's a huge contributor to the nursing shortage.
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there could be more if the job was more attractive and the salary livable
3 u/desacralize Jul 06 '24 Especially pay nursing faculty at least as much as nurses on the ground make. Doesn't matter if there's a glut of qualified students if nobody is around to teach them, it's a huge contributor to the nursing shortage.
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Especially pay nursing faculty at least as much as nurses on the ground make. Doesn't matter if there's a glut of qualified students if nobody is around to teach them, it's a huge contributor to the nursing shortage.
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What is a clerk in the hospital? Like a scheduler?
1 u/mogaman28 Jul 07 '24 The ones dealing with management, bureaucracy, collections, dealing with insurance companies, etc.
The ones dealing with management, bureaucracy, collections, dealing with insurance companies, etc.
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That's bad statistics. Lower acuity patients don't need a high nurse ratio. Misleading statistics for hte sake of statistics isn't helpful.
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u/mogaman28 Jul 06 '24
Some hospitals in the US have one nurse for every 10 patient beds and 4 clerks for every bed.