Stephanie Brown is a traveling nurse currently working at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Photographed on August 22, 2022.
The contract she saw posted for Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage at $3,000 a week was more than twice her pay as a full-time staff nurse inBrown is one of hundreds of travel nurses in Alaska,urgently trying to fill vacant positions after exhausted nurses leaving jobs during the pandemic worsened longtime staff shortages. These days, up to a third of the nurses working in emergency rooms here might be from somewhere outside Alaska.
For now, however, travel nurses are the only immediate way to maintain the staff needed to care for Alaska’s patients, health care industry officials say. Reached by phone while on a long-awaited vacation to the East Coast, Ward said she’d gotten almost daily texts that week from supervisors asking if she could pick up an extra shift for increased pay due to chronic understaffing.
A co-worker recently accepted a travel position at a different hospital in Anchorage for about double what she makes at Providence, even without the per diem stipends associated with taking a position that’s farther from home, Ward said. During the worst days of the pandemic, hospitals around Alaska were pushed to the brink with an influx of COVID-19 patients and limited resources. Many nursesMcDowell said she thinks the pandemic may have turned off some people who may been considering nursing — and drove others to retire or leave the profession.
Jared Kosin is president and CEO of Alaska Hospital and Healthcare Association. Photographed Sept. 2.
Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)
If only this had been the lead story last year this time instead of 'covid overwhelms hospital staff' As far back as 1991 I encountered travel nurses on limited contracts at Anchorage hospitals.
They wouldn't have to do this to this extent if they hadn't mandated the experimental covid shot, which doesn't even seem to work.
Didn't U of A lose their nursing school accreditation? So no local education taking place? Freely admit I could be wrong about this, but I remember something going on in 2019.
What is enrollment like for Alaska nursing schools? Any legislative incentives for our youth to learn this skill?
Maybe they shouldn’t have fired staff for refusing experimental gene therapy to treat an illness w a 99% survival rate
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