Vicious circle!One-third of U.S. medical staff want to resign, the future gap may reach one million
Under the continuous impact of the epidemic on CCTV, many parts of the United States are facing a crisis of shortage of medical staff. In the past year or so, a large number of medical staff in the United States have resigned, and many of them are unwilling to return to work. This has brought more difficulties to the already stressed American medical system.
Recent data released by the U.S. Department of Labor shows that in September this year, the labor force in the U.S. healthcare industry dropped by 18,000. Since the beginning of 2020, the U.S. healthcare industry has lost 500,000 laborers, of which about 400,000 come from nursing institutions. Although medical institutions have been actively recruiting, it cannot make up for the gap caused by the resignation of medical staff. According to US media reports, the United States was already facing a shortage of medical staff before the epidemic. Now with the impact of the epidemic, the shortage of medical staff in the United States may reach 1 million in just a few years.
Medical staff continue to resign, forming a vicious circle
According to a survey conducted by the Mourning Consulting Company, in the past year or so, the proportion of medical staff who resigned in the United States was as high as 18%. Even for the remaining medical workers, one-third expressed their desire to resign, citing excessive workload, fatigue and low wages. This has formed a vicious circle. The more medical staff who resign, the greater the pressure on the work of the remaining medical staff and their willingness to resign.
The massive loss of labor in the healthcare industry has brought a lot of trouble to the US healthcare system. Hospitals in some regions have to hire medical workers across states or even across borders. Recently, a hospital in Detroit submitted a document hoping to recruit 500 nurses from the Philippines to fill its 1,000 vacant positions. It is understood that the hospital in Detroit had to temporarily reduce the number of beds due to lack of manpower.