Will Money Help Solve The Problems In Nursing?
The Biden Administration announced that it is awarding more than $100,000,000.00 to train more nurses in growing the nursing workforce.
However, will adding more nurses solve the problems in nursing where nurses are leaving in droves?
I don’t think so. The problem is the context of nursing is practice and how nurses don’t feel valued and appreciated by administrations. Context means environment.
$8,700,000.00 is going to help LPNs become RNs; $34,800,000.00 will go towards advancing The Nursing Education Workforce Program; and $30,000,000.00 will go towards advancing nursing education – nurse practitioner residency fellowship programs and $26,500,000.00 will go to nurse faculty loan programs to provide low interest loans and loan cancellation to incentivize careers as nursing faculty.
While I am glad that this bill is addressing nursing faculty, I truly believe that nursing is in our DNA. You cannot pay enough to have people to do the things that nurses are required to do. Therefore, putting money into adding more nurses to the profession is, in my opinion, not going to help.
The system is broken and must be fixed or is going to continue to be a revolving door with people coming and going.
I would love to see more money being put toward nurses’ salaries but putting in more money is not going to solve the problem. Until healthcare facilities show how valuable and appreciated nurses are, listen to them and implement their feedback, things will not change.
At this time, nurses are treated like disposable workers, “we can always get another one!” Unfortunately, it is more difficult these days to get another nurse to replace those who leave.
Also, it takes a lot of money to orient a nurse to a new facility.
What are your thoughts about adding more money to nursing education? Will it solve or decrease the problems in nursing.
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