{"id":1170,"date":"2021-12-02T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5121.temp.domains\/~dappers2\/Michael\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T22:00:40","slug":"workforce-a-security-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Staffing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are quitting or retiring, exhausted or demoralized by the crisis. And many are leaving for lucrative temporary jobs with traveling-nurse agencies that can pay $5,000 or more a week.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">It\u2019s gotten to the point where doctors are saying, \u201cMaybe I should quit being a doctor and go be a nurse,\u201d said Dr. Phillip Coule, chief medical officer at Georgia\u2019s Augusta University Medical Center, which has on occasion seen 20 to 30 resignations in a week from nurses taking traveling jobs.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">\u201cAnd then we have to pay premium rates to get staff from another state to come to our state,\u201d Coule said.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">The average pay for a traveling nurse has soared from roughly $1,000 to $2,000 per week before the pandemic to $3,000 to $5,000 now, said Sophia Morris, a vice president at San Diego-based health care staffing firm Aya Healthcare. She said Aya has 48,000 openings for traveling nurses to fill.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3211 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Medical-aide.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3180 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nursing-navitas-health-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nursing-navitas-health-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navitashealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nursing-navitas-health.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">The explosion in pay has made it hard on hospitals without deep enough pockets.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly lamented recently that the state\u2019s hospitals risk being outbid for nurses by other states that pay a \u201cfortune.\u201d She said Wednesday that several hospitals, including one in Topeka, had open beds but no nurses to staff them.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-78 Component-p-0-2-69\">In Texas, more than 6,000 travel nurses have flooded the state to help with the surge through a state-supported program. But on the same day that 19 of them went to work at a hospital in the northern part of the state, 20 other nurses at the same place gave notice that they would be leaving for a traveling contract, said Carrie Kroll, a vice president at the Texas Hospital Association.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer. The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are quitting or retiring, exhausted or demoralized by the crisis. 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