Support by Nurses & Other Health Professionals
You & other health care professionals care deeply about your patients—but you are also under increasing workplace & financial stress
As a health care professional, you are all too familiar with the risks. Burnout, toxic stress and related mental health issues continue to cause high nurse and other health care staff turnover, even after the pandemic.
Nurses complain in particular of insufficient staffing, feeling unvalued by their organization, and inadequate compensation. According to the CDC, these feelings affect many kinds of health workers.
You got into this field with a personal mission to care for people. But for many of you, it’s getting harder to do what needs to be done—and with a reasonable amount of compensation for your hard work & stress.
(And staff being spread too thin is also bad news for patients. For example, high patient-to-nurse ratios have been shown for decades to increase the risk of dying for many patients—as well as burning out nurses.)
Health professionals are increasingly getting caught in the middle—being asked to do more with less time per patient and with inadequate compensation.
Health organizations have not been able to prevent the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, which are in turn driving more & increasingly complex medical treatments. Chronic conditions now affect over half of all US adults, with more than 1 in 3 adults having multiple conditions!
Ultimately, with annual health costs exceeding $12,000 per American and federal health cost-driven deficits skyrocketing, the growing health costs caused by these epidemic chronic conditions cannot be reimbursed adequately by public or private health plans or plan participants.
As costs mount for hospitals, clinics, and other health care provider employers, without adequate reimbursement by health plans, staffing ratios and compensation are getting squeezed by cost pressures.
In other words, by not preventing preventable health conditions, we make health care professionals’ lives much harder—with greater stress and lower compensation.
But miracle drugs are only true miracles, if people can afford them, and they take the meds consistently as needed—in this case, for life—and if the benefits outweigh the risks.
We must start reducing the incidence of chronic disease, at a reasonable cost (i.e., not by tens of millions of people becoming dependent on expensive lifelong Ozempic/Zepbound/etc prescriptions). The only way to do so at the scale needed is starting early with children.
(And imagine patients who not only had exercised regularly throughout childhood, but who had received 13 years of health education? They would understand the importance of health much better, including how their body and brain functions. And they would better appreciate the value of medical advice, including the importance of following through with changes in their habits.)
One step that you can take now to help us is to fill out our Contact form.
(We only use your email address for our own work. And we do not solicit you or other average income individuals for donations. What we need is your support for advocacy for more government funding for students’ physical activity and for developing health habits in schools.)
Another thing you can do is to encourage your health organization to support Healthy Students Healthy State. You can start by forwarding this webpage to others at your organization or in other areas of health care…or even to friends and family.
How Can I Help?
We need your help in getting the word out!
One quick easy step that you can take now to help us is to fill out our Contact form.
When you fill out the Contact form, you can specify if you wish to assist us, and how you want us to follow up with you.
(We only use your email address for our own work. And we do not solicit you for donations.)
Another thing you can do is to encourage your own employer and professional association, and your own personal network of colleagues in health care, to support Healthy Students Healthy State.
On your mobile device please hold down to copy a link to this webpage to text to them;
or forward this webpage via email.
Here are other links you can copy & paste to text or email; or click to create an email now:
About Healthy Future US – click to Email now
Healthy Students Healthy State – Overview & Details – click to Email now