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The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

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128 points mykowebhn | 4 comments | 29 Jul 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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constantcrying ◴[29 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44725147[source]▶
Much of the west is getting older and getting sicker. How unsurprising.

What even is the solution? Expand the already massive healthcare sector further? Where does the money for that come from?

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FigurativeVoid ◴[29 Jul 25 16:38 UTC] No.44725495[source]▶
I have thought that we should make entering the medical professions much easier. In order to become a nurse, you usually need a 4 year degree. This has two issues:

1. This is way to much time in the classroom. Much of that coursework simply isn't necessary.

2. You have people that would be good nurses piking other programs because they can't get passing marks in classes that are irrelevant to day to day nursing.

Binding what are essentially professional programs to the academy is a mistake. Don't get me wrong, I love the academy. But we need nurses.

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1. nicoburns ◴[29 Jul 25 16:42 UTC] No.44725553[source]▶
That doesn't help if we don't have money to hire qualified nurses.
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2. the-grump ◴[29 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44725663[source]▶
Larger supply leads to lower prices, if demand stays flat.
3. CoastalCoder ◴[29 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44725785[source]▶
If nurses had lower up-front costs for their own training, I could imagine that allowing lower wages without them being worse off financially.

If we hand-wave away a lot of other market dynamics, I'm guessing.

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4. rectang ◴[29 Jul 25 17:10 UTC] No.44725878[source]▶
CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistants) have low up-front training costs, but don't make a lot of money: an average of $19/hr [1]. So at least some of the less skilled work is being done with economic efficiency.

[1] https://nursa.com/salary/cna