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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Completely anecdotal but my wife who works as a nurse would be saying substantially similar things as Cliff and I don’t think, even if he can’t produce a university level research thesis of evidence, the concerns should be so outright dismissed by the majority here.
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Completely anecdotal, but have two nurses in the family who do echo the frustrations identified. They're burned out and frustrated and have considered changing vocations. Not going to deny this condition, but it is also important to acknowledge this same condition exists in almost every country, especially the United States. Grass is likely not greener, it is probably astroturf.
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Sometimes what you hear from people can be true in a general sense. I only state this insofar as the issue of nurses quitting however, I am not sure if it means they’re flooding to the States.
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Therein lies the problem with Cliff's comment and argument. Stated there was a flood of biblical proportions of medical people in Canada heading to the US because "things" are better. Not accurate and nothing to support it except to say that people are frustrated in the industry in Canada, but then ignores that the same frustrations exist here in the US. The data doesn't support the claim of the flood and the conditions for the displeasure on the Canadian side were not considered as a similar detractor on the US marketplace.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/nu...rnd/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/health/pande...doctors-nurses
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2021...ting-due-covid
Three sources to offend all political ideologies equally!
As to the migration to the US for work, anecdotally, one of those nurses has been a traveling nurse to the US and was extremely happy when her visa expired and she got to say home. Did she like the money? Yes. Did she like living in the US? Not really. Culturally wasn't her bag. Would she do it again or make the recommendation to her daughter to do the same? Nope. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze.