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Oregon is encountering a radical lack of psychological healthcare employees. The state requires as several as 35,000 brand-new employees by some quotes to fill up the psychological healthcare requirements in the state. But individuals interested and also happy to enter into the area are encountering high obstacles to doing the job. What can be done to alter the system, and also open the pipe of behavior healthcare employees? Read much more: https://www.kgw.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/straight-talk/why-dont-people-become-mental-health-care-workers-oregon/283-83987c38-59c1-4246-965e-3a9f354b25ec Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/KGWNews8 Watch the current KGW broadcast: https://www.kgw.com/watch Get the KGW application: https://kgw.com/appredirect
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I know a certified PhD psychiatrist who quit after 19 years because her support staff were more interested in cell phone activity than doing the work on the job, in the office, on a daily basis, at one of our PacNW hospitals. She just got sick of the unprofessional attitudes of the younger workers. That is what she told me.
That’s completely anecdotal. No one wants these jobs because we have 90-120 clients on our caseload and try hese “young professionals” just came out of school with 100k in debt and can’t even be fully licensed. For another 2 years while they work the highest stress jobs with high requirements for education and terrible student debt.
Its a failed system. Low pay, 60+ hours a week(salaried), no support for staff, endless paperwork, no resources for clients, high burnout, and if anything goes wrong they will all blame you…sorry your not getting workers cause the workers are not appreciated and basically used
Insurance payers = problem, why aren’t they on the panel?
Pretty simple. The highest needs clients are on Medicaid but it pays like shit and the oversight and requirements are overbearing. Also insurers will find any way not to pay you and drive if them don’t even pay a license wage.
Because they are a pain in the ass to deal with and will try and nickle and dime us and our patients as much as possible.
FINALLY we are talking about this This is a super easy answer to the question. WE DONT VALUE MENTAL HEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY. . We like to pretend we do. we won’t pay the taxes to fund it, we won’t make the barriers to providing it smaller (education and student debt) and then we pay them God awful wages. If people think it’s so important than the average tax payer needs to start paying more for it, insurance companies and licensing boards need to make a national panel that allows licensed mental health workers to be licensed everywhere in the United States.
I’m working on getting my state certificates right now. I can’t wait to get started on this new path.