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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Anecdotally, and I don't work in the health care system so may be completely off the mark. But years ago when my kids were born (Foothills Hospital) they had a job board with all the various postings. Not a single FT nursing position available, everything was part time. Fast forward to today, my niece graduated from nursing two years ago and no FT positions to be found. She's worked temporary contract and multiple jobs to make up FT hours. So it seems not much has changed in 23 years, this is not a new issue. Why is this happening?? I don't know but have heard (again anecdotally) that the nursing profession is quite flexible with work hours partly due to being heavily dominated by females. Changing to 0.8, 0.5 time etc. to meet family demands at home. This is both a blessing and a curse it seems. Great to have that flexibility for those that need it but it creates thousands of part time positions that are harder to fill, and nurses need to piece together multiple positions to make a FT wage. That's not ideal either.
Might be completely off the mark and I don't know what the solution is. Just my observations.
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Yeah...my information is only Anecdotal as well so...'huge grain of salt' but I think Nursing is suffering from a similar problem as Teaching.
You've got people hanging around WAY too long and so there arent positions available for new blood who can work more hours, be more efficient, have new ideas as opposed to 'We've always done it this way" etc.
And that applies to Managerial positions as well.