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Is the nursing shortage falsified claims Williams 2013

So much truth in blogs; (restricted research and publications- we all know it);

There is no shortage of nurses in 2013. Nursing careers have changed over the years requiring less registered nurses. Health Care providers hire less Registered Nurses, but hire more anxillary staffing to complete what was once considered nursing duties. The nurse will usually be the one in charge of the assistants or anxillary staffing. Some states have medications techs, now. Hospitals hire RN's part-time or registry so they can save on paying benefits. Working conditions for registered nurses are difficult because there are no unions in most states and registered nurse job descriptions are not clearly defined. Registered nurses are floated to different areas with little orientation in the hospitals because it saves money and hospitals can do whatever they please. If the nurse protest, the nurse is out of a job and may be unemployable because corporations purchase hospitals, kinda like a Mcdonalds chain, so if your fired in one, good luck finding another job. Add to this, the educational requirement for job entry is a Bachelor of Nursing in some states and sometimes assitional certifications. Lately, I have noticed master degree requirements for some nursing jobs. I have been a nurse 25 years. When I started it was an o.k, job, but now it's really hellish! Healthcare is a business and the nurse is another employee on an assemply line.
 I am completely depressed about this entire nursing situation. I spent my last dime going to school, student loans are kicking in ,220 applications later, 9 months later after graduation and still nothing. My husband lost his job this week, we have a 6 month old baby, what next? Go to school some more? With what money? Go volunteer? Well that doesn't pay the bills. Soon, I will have to start working 2 jobs just to make ends meet, probably in some fast food restaurant or something. Nursing field is a complete let down and waste of time, unless you know someone to get into the field, its worthless. You are going against thousands of applicants, more and more adding to it each graduating semester.

These are USA but so applies to UK and elsewhere. No shortage of jobs - many are frozen (RCN) . Overseas staff are so much cheaper and complain less (Duell in Dimon 2013).The issue is- governments seek a cheaper alternative.

Still the battle goes on with the RCN insisting there are 20000 unfilled vacancies ( Stephenson 2013  ) but these are frozen and unavailable jobs.Evidence jobs specifically advertised abroad from job ads and blogs (Elgot 2013). People may dislike the implications- no need to train nurses here use them "off the peg " from abroad; even if different or no training , and different attitudes (Dimon 2013).

No answer from HEE or DH, or anybody else- apart from accusations. Why do we bother?

Elgot R (2013) (28.1) Romanian Immigrants 'Have pick of thousands of Uk Jobs, Recruiter says. Huffington Post

Stephenson J (2013) RCN issues Warning over nursing shortage in capital Nursingtimes.net