I was taking a survey for nursing satisfaction and this question just reminded me that these things existed and are pretty normalized.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I worked at a nursing home that would cover your two year LPN degree, a cost of about $30k. You were then stuck in a two year contract with them or you had to pay back the full amount, even at 1 year and 364 days. Because the admin was fucked and the nursing home was terrible, our staff turnover rate was about 2-6 months. You could expect multiple injuries during that time, any one of which could render you unable to do the highly physical job with 12 hour shifts. They paid below industry norms, at the time not enough for me to rent a studio apartment, and didn't offer actual health insurance.

    Nursing really loves indentured servitude.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      It was a bit of a running joke at my previous place that since they didn't require people to stay after getting their CNA that once they completed the program they just immediately bounced because the conditions were god awful.

      My first nursing job at a hospital had us do a "nurse residency" program, they didn't make us pay for it, but they were lobbying to make it required for all nurses to "graduate" a program like it to practice in the state, I got fired 3 days before "graduation." The program was also tooled for 7a-3p when basically every nurse in the program worked 7p to 7:30a so it was just a day once a month that everyone suffered through severe sleep deprivation to listen to a bunch of managers talk about what kinds of farts they were huffing that month. They also non-explicitly expected you to do your project on your own time.