By NextBestFitExpand nursing schools and faculty pay
Fund faculty salaries and clinical placements; schools turn away qualified applicants today.
Schools turn away qualified applicants today.
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Expand nursing schools and faculty pay
Creates or worsens
Concrete changes if chosen
What would actually have to change in law, agencies, payment rules, or systems.
- Fund nursing faculty salaries
- Fund clinical placements
Effects
Each effect has its own page: the evidence, the case that it is or isn't a real cost, and whom it affects.
What it fixes
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout
Funding faculty salaries and clinical placements expands the long-term nursing supply by allowing schools to admit qualified applicants they currently turn away. New nurses can still leave if working conditions remain poor.
What it creates or worsens
- Takes years, or money up front, before it pays off
Expanded nursing education takes years to increase the workforce.
Who's affected
Who gains
- People with ongoing or specialist care needs
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Understaffed hospitals and nursing homes leave them with too few caregivers.
- Older and disabled people needing long-term care
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Understaffed hospitals and nursing homes leave them with too few caregivers.
- Doctors, nurses, and other clinicians
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: High turnover and low aide pay burden care workers.
- Health profession students and trainees
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Funding faculty salaries and clinical placements expands the long-term nursing supply by allowing schools to admit qualified applicants they currently turn away. New nurses can still leave if working conditions remain poor.
- Hospitals, clinics, and care organizations
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Funding faculty salaries and clinical placements expands the long-term nursing supply by allowing schools to admit qualified applicants they currently turn away. New nurses can still leave if working conditions remain poor.
Who loses
- Health care staffing agencies
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Shortages allow them to charge premium rates.
- Hospitals, clinics, and care organizations
- Nursing and direct-care shortages and burnout: Operators benefit from keeping staffing thin.
- Taxpayers and public budgets
- Takes years, or money up front, before it pays off: Expanded nursing education takes years to increase the workforce.
Where it has been tried
- HRSA nursing programs: Projections show RN and LPN shortages.