Interesting inquiry, Amy. I know many "retired" nurses who have become instructors and educators because they have found the transition from active clinical nursing to no clinical nursing too drastic. They are using their years of experience to teach new skills or update old skills which works for them because they stay in the game and augment their retirement income.
Ricu,
This is a great Idea for those who are retiring to go into teaching if they want to gently transition away from nursing.
All to often they go back to work "perdium" in the exact position they retired from. Effectivly doubling their takehome pay.
Retirment is designed to free up jobs for the next generation.
They would be helping to foster the future generation of incoming nurses instead of taking jobs away from them.
NOW, all we have to do is convince the retiries in my area that this is a good idea.
It is beter to be a part of the solution than to be the cause of the problem.
Originally Posted by Ricu
Orion,
It is definitely better to be part of the solution. More than retirees hanging onto clinical jobs is a lack of clinical jobs in the first place. Legislators and policymakers insist that certain requirements must be met for places of medical care to be considered "adequate" and those requirements largely have to do with nursing presence however, since there is little $$ available to secure nursing staff, many medical care facilities remain substandard. Perhaps those regulators aught to turn their attention to this bigger problem and a lot of the other nagging issues of "overall satisfaction" would disappear.
R
This is a real cyclical problem that occurs regularly in any industry that relies heavily on Govt reinbursment. Like it or not healthcare/medicine is a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on Govt reimbursment to function. The out of pocket cash spend by the average consumer doesn't come near to covering the cost expended by institutions. The govt wants hospital's to do the same for more with less and in 5 to 10 years they will see that it doesn't work and hopefully fix it for real this time. Right now with healthcare reform the foreseeable future is dim for rank and file nurses. I never thought I would see the time when I would discourage people from going into nursing but right now I wouldn't recomend it. Nursing has been very good to me - but even my end is suffering severe cuts and I haven't had a raise in years. My job has other compensations that make it worth the effort like free gass for my car and very flexible working hours but I will most likely retire as soon as I can. Maybe I will go on to teach. Who knows.
Peace
Hppy
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