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Improv to Improve the POW Camp?

Candy Campbell

Although I was retired from bedside nursing by the time COVID surfaced, like most nurses, I'd seen a lot of misery, pain, and death that I don't talk about.

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

They found that 1/3 of surveyed physicians and nurses planned to reduce work hours within a year, and approximately 40% of nurses planned to leave their current jobs within two years [3]. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Stress, burnout, and heavy workload.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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Here's Why Nurse Leaders Are Leaving the Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

Turnover rates amongst nurse leaders are projected to be high, and CNOs need to strategize. The staffing shortage affects not only the bedside nurse, but also the nurse leader. A new report from AMN Healthcare found that 31% of nurse leaders said they plan to be in a different role a year from now.

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Can Virtual Nursing Can Solve the Staffing Crisis?

Scrubs

. “Bidirectional audio and video technology was installed and configured for each of the patient rooms and interfaced with the electronic health record to enable the nurse to seamlessly video conference with the patient,” said Sylvain Trepanier, RN, chief nursing officer at health system Providence.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

What the NCSBN and other nursing workforce studies don’t report is what became of the ex-nurses. If they didn’t retire, what careers did they transition into? Or, did they simply move away from the toxic bedside and take on less stressful jobs? What are they doing now? Did they leave the profession entirely?

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To Build the Workforce, We Need More Nurse Educators

Nurse.com

Like bedside nurses, the extra workload for nurse faculty can raise the potential of burnout. This study also estimated that one-third of nurse educators in 2015 would be retired by 2025. “It “There’s advising, grading, and committees. Their own scholarship may suffer.”. And now it’s only three years away.”