Comment by hammock

Comment by hammock 2 months ago

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I like this analysis, although I come to a different conclusion: if AI can allow nurses to manage 10x as many beds (30 vs 3), a hospital can now let go 90% of its nursing staff. Wouldn’t you?

netsharc 2 months ago

Luckily most hospitals in the world seem to be short-staffed, and the population of sick is growing (because people are living longer).

  • hammock 2 months ago

    Generally speaking, they aren’t short staffed because there aren’t enough nurses, but because they can’t/won’t pay them enough. Those same hospitals hire large numbers of travel nurses to supplement their “short staff” at pay rates double or triple a local nurse.

    And the nurses who want decent pay and can do travel nurse, do travel nurse

namaria 2 months ago

Coming to the conclusion that cutting 90% of nursing staff is possible and desirable is an astonishingly disconnected take

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