Staffing is a nightmare, we are < 100 bed rural hospital in a retirement community and have multiple open positions on all shifts, using multiple travelers and non-registered techs (for micro assistants, send-out dept. processing and covid testing). Losing techs to retirement and traveling (as they say they can't continue to train travelers and pick up their slack knowing the travelers are making so much more money). Most hires are new grads so training is more intensive. Everyone is training fatigued, morale is down, techs are burnt out. We are sometimes training two techs at once! We do offer sign on bonuses (5-10 K) and similar bonus incentives to existing techs to cover the night shifts, but still having trouble. We are doing some 10 and 12 hour shift experimentation with travelers and hired a tech to work just weekends who has not yet started training. We are hiring two international techs who agree to 3 year commitment and obtain a green card at end of 3 years for night shift coverage. Housing is is hard to find and unaffordable here as well. Everyone has gone to vacation rental property (if they had rentals) so now there is minimal rental inventory and housing prices have not come down from the severe increases of recent years. No end in sight to staffing shortages. I can't wait to retire next year! It is time for contract negotiations to start so hopefully there will be some big pay increases to ease this crisis.