You got into this to begin with to help people. That part of the job has been taken away. Which is why younger people are staying away. Despite job cuts, there's a nursing shortage. High anxiety and forced OT pushes most nurses out the door by age 50.
Younger ones come in, take a look, and turn around.
Local hospitals cut 11 percent of staff in the past few years. The ends still are not meeting. Hospitals want HMOs to raise premiums, but it's a tough sell in a place with a busted economy. Talk about closing an unneeded hospital, and people go ballistic. First you've got to pay the heat bill.