11-19-2021, 12:46 AM
(11-18-2021, 12:10 PM)DJC link Wrote:According to Kylie Ward, the CEO of the Australian College of Nursing, around 20,000 nurses leave the profession every year. That's a 5% churn rate; high, but not unexpected in a high-pressure, low-reward workforce.Over 12000 jobs for nurses in Aus vacant, the problem with those 20000 leaving is you need the breakdown of who they are and what they do ie if they are ICU and ER for example then you wont be getting the replacements from the Grad sector.
The vaccine mandate has resulted in less than 1% of the nursing workforce leaving the profession.
One of my family members is a nurse and he's thriving in the current environment. I guess it takes all types as well as individual employment arrangements.
I keep hearing all this BS about getting Nurses from the UK to fill the gaps here in Aus, this is where people not involved in the health care sector have no idea as there are around 37000 vacancies in the UK for Nurses so its a worldwide problem.
Its no secret in the industry either that agencies send non specialist agency nurses to fill specialist Nursing positions just to get the business and its because they just dont have those extra qualified nurses on their books.

