Education Nursing Burnout Retirement 
Minority Nurse
JUNE 19, 2025
In the world of higher education, this happens a few times a year. For nursing, graduations can occur more frequently, as programs often run year-round to meet the growing demand for healthcare professionals. A Profession Under Pressure The nursing profession is currently facing unprecedented challenges.
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Longer lifespans extend the period when patients need care, intensifying demands on an already strained healthcare system and worsening the nursing shortage. In 2022, the median age of employed registered nurses was 46 years old, and more than 25% of all RNs say they will retire or leave the nursing field within the next five years.
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Daily Nurse
JANUARY 15, 2024
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]. Stress, burnout, and heavy workload. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age.
Empowered Nurses
JANUARY 19, 2023
Mount Sinai nurses are back to work with safe staffing ratios for all inpatient units “with firm enforcement so that there will always be enough nurses at the bedside to provide safe patient care, not just on paper.” This result in New York is a great start because change usually occurs on the coasts first.
Diversity Nursing
JULY 10, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nurses have experienced higher rates of burnout which has led to an increased number of Nurses leaving bedside Nursing or even the Nursing profession altogether.
Life of a Nurse
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
One of the largest cohorts for Registered Nurses and Physicians was 55 years and over (another significant one was 64+ old). According to RNAO (2021) 1/3 of nurses 50+ years are considering retirement within 2-5 years. The physicians have a significant pattern of retiring, leaving practices, and not entering family medicine.
Amercan Journal of Nursing
MAY 11, 2023
A recent survey found that job satisfaction has been dropping for nurses, while the percentage who say they may leave the profession is as high as 30% overall, with younger nurses those likely to say they may leave. Nurse educators do our best, but we know that we are sending new graduates into the fire.
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