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Originally Posted by nebulous1
Money is the big deal breaker. If and when hospital corps figure out how to break the nursing thing the way IT was broken, it will happen. They don't like paying you guys all that money.
Insurance is paying for less and less, and many are going without as much medical care as before, so the baby boomer thing isn't the big thing either. I am a boomer, and I don't have big healthcare benefits, nor do I run to the doctor for everything.
No one profession is isolated or immune to being broken by the bean counters, believe me.
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BTW .... just in the last month, I have gotten two job offers in the mail ... totally unsolicited. That's how in demand RN's are ...
Of course hospitals don't want to pay. But that's why living in a strong union state like California is really great for nurses. Nurses can and do go out on strike using their leverage as a group.
So it's a lot more difficult for them to shut us down like they did with IT. If anything ... it's the other way around. Nurses shut them down.
UC Davis tried this a couple of years ago. The nurses went out on a one day strike which cost them $10 million ... just for one day. The hospital was forced to negotiate with the union and the nurses got most of what they wanted.
So yeah no profession is totally immune but, since California nurses have strong unions ... it's pretty close.