Nurse here. The training they get in the Philippines is NOT equivalent to the training we receive here in the US. Long ago my hospital BANNED hiring ANY foreign-trained nurses, you have to have US nursing training. I have worked with both types of Filipino nurses - those trained here in the US and those who were trained in the Philippines, and the differences are staggering, so much so I can now tell them apart with them telling me where they were educated.
ADD to that - MOST hospitals are HIGHLY profit-motivated and ultimately run more by administrative types rather than actual healthcare providers. I have personally witnessed SO many scenarios where administration pushes unsafe practices upon the staff which can and does lead to unsafe patient outcomes. Who do YOU think is more willing to obey an unsafe rule, an American citizen who can ultimately find another job elsewhere, or someone you can threaten and intimidate with threats of deportation? And yes, I have seen upper management first-hand threaten to deport nurses.
Was laid up in the hospital awhile back due to a pressure ulcer and was baffled at how the admins treats nurses. Working doubles due to short staffing, fighting ppe order requests and making the staff shortage worse by forcing nurses to take time off who WANT to work or firing them over a single bad report when a patient complained they weren't treated like royalty. Not to mention ya'll went from national heroes with a military flyover to public enemy #1 for working an entire year with the vaxx and deciding to continue doing so.
Thanks. Yeah, everything you've mentioned are all contributing factors to burnout and the current shortage we're currently experiencing. The worst part that many don't know is as we were coming out of last year's covid restrictions and easing back on things like visitor policy, hospitals were cutting resources like mad claiming they lost so much money last year from loss of elective surgeries. Staff were worked like dogs last year, and now we're being worked even harder to make up their profit margins, so more people are leaving, and current renewed covid restrictions are only making resources shorter and work harder.
My hospital recently instituted a bonus pay policy for working extra, it was really good, and they STILL didn't have enough takers so they upped the bonus even further! And STILL not enough takers! If that's not a sign I don't know what is. I think we're in for a rough winter, staffing-wise, and am personally looking at my own options elsewhere.
If you're located in the South, come to SC. Know a few nurses here (made friends with them during my stay) and the hospital they work at wasn't a bunch of shitheads to them during the last year.
Nurse here. The training they get in the Philippines is NOT equivalent to the training we receive here in the US. Long ago my hospital BANNED hiring ANY foreign-trained nurses, you have to have US nursing training. I have worked with both types of Filipino nurses - those trained here in the US and those who were trained in the Philippines, and the differences are staggering, so much so I can now tell them apart with them telling me where they were educated.
ADD to that - MOST hospitals are HIGHLY profit-motivated and ultimately run more by administrative types rather than actual healthcare providers. I have personally witnessed SO many scenarios where administration pushes unsafe practices upon the staff which can and does lead to unsafe patient outcomes. Who do YOU think is more willing to obey an unsafe rule, an American citizen who can ultimately find another job elsewhere, or someone you can threaten and intimidate with threats of deportation? And yes, I have seen upper management first-hand threaten to deport nurses.
Was laid up in the hospital awhile back due to a pressure ulcer and was baffled at how the admins treats nurses. Working doubles due to short staffing, fighting ppe order requests and making the staff shortage worse by forcing nurses to take time off who WANT to work or firing them over a single bad report when a patient complained they weren't treated like royalty. Not to mention ya'll went from national heroes with a military flyover to public enemy #1 for working an entire year with the vaxx and deciding to continue doing so.
Thanks. Yeah, everything you've mentioned are all contributing factors to burnout and the current shortage we're currently experiencing. The worst part that many don't know is as we were coming out of last year's covid restrictions and easing back on things like visitor policy, hospitals were cutting resources like mad claiming they lost so much money last year from loss of elective surgeries. Staff were worked like dogs last year, and now we're being worked even harder to make up their profit margins, so more people are leaving, and current renewed covid restrictions are only making resources shorter and work harder.
My hospital recently instituted a bonus pay policy for working extra, it was really good, and they STILL didn't have enough takers so they upped the bonus even further! And STILL not enough takers! If that's not a sign I don't know what is. I think we're in for a rough winter, staffing-wise, and am personally looking at my own options elsewhere.
If you're located in the South, come to SC. Know a few nurses here (made friends with them during my stay) and the hospital they work at wasn't a bunch of shitheads to them during the last year.