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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
Long-Term Care: Long-term care facilities, in particular, have difficulty attracting and retaining health care professionals. Because long-term facilities are not reimbursed at the same rates as hospitals, they cannot always provide competitive compensation. Additionally, the image of long-term care is generally seen as less "glamorous" than other health care environments. Employers need more health care professionals who are dedicated to a career in geriatric care and/or in nursing home facilities. Students also need a greater understanding of the nursing home model, which includes the social model of aging in addition to the medical model of aging.
| "The biggest complication or biggest downside is that we get—I'm in transitional and long-term care—we get new grads, a lot of new grads, but then after a year, they go to the hospitals because they can make $10 an hour more. We're just a huge stepping stone, and it's just a vicious cycle where I'm forever feeding it, and it's very frustrating. We can't compete with hospital wages, and you have a lot more patients in long-term care than you do in the hospital, and it's very frustrating to my staff when they see how much more they can make down the road." | Metro |
| "I think that's one of the things maybe the colleges could help with—in terms of identifying who may have an interest in long-term care nursing. It really is changing. It's not, you know, the traditional setting of the 1970s. It's sub-acute. It's like a medical-surgical unit. It's fast-paced. We need someone who can multi-task and who can be very organized. In terms of the colleges, they could offer more or suggest more people go into long-term care for their preceptorship. Or encourage people to look at that as a possible career, not just as a stepping stone." | Metro |
| "And then, the opposite is that there will be a growth in geriatric populations in our health care system, too, so you have twofold... Question: And, the experienced folks are going to retire, and... Employer: They're going to be patients now." |
Metro |