From a Nurse.

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31. Hospital administrators have been squeezing staff salaries including nurses for decades.

The administrators are so much better paid than the medical professionals. I remember in the mid 70s when sitting at the table of the mother of my son's best friend in kindergarten, an OB nurse, told me she and all the nurses in her department were being "let go" because of expense. They were going with agency nurses because of the expense of the fringe benefits and retirement. I was appalled then and it's only gotten worse. A "temporary fix" to save some money does not save money by squeezing the beating heart of the system. The money situation is bad enough but with Covid nobody knows how bad the burnout is going to be and none of us can blame them if they leave the profession completely.