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The Nursing Shortage and Patient Safety

Relias

Nursing shortage statistics continue to show that the healthcare industry still has an urgent need for nurses. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) , the current shortage of RNs in the U.S. Healthcare organizations will need to replace them with less experienced nurses.

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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. Leadership should remain visible and accessible to both shifts.

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Nurse Staffing Standards Act Is First Step in Solving Nursing Shortage

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The nursing shortage continues, with no end in sight. Working nurses are suffering burnout from caring for so many patients that they know nursing care is being missed. Nurse educators do our best, but we know that we are sending new graduates into the fire. New report signals stronger ANA support for legislation.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

Amidst a sea of temporary band-aid solutions for nursing, like gig apps and travel nurses, Woods , DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, the Chief Nurse of Health Learning, Research and Practice, Wolters Kluwer spoke with Daily Nurse to discuss her practical, long-term solutions to address the nursing shortage and burnout.

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

An innovative approach to help new graduate nurses transition into practice Takeaways: As the nursing shortage continues, more new nursing graduates will take jobs in specialty areas such as critical care. Nursing graduates face many stressors and must be supported during their transition into practice.

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4 Problems CNOs Need to Solve in 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

The 2024 HealthLeaders CNO Exchange wrapped up last week in Florida after three days of enthusiastic idea-sharing and elevated discussion about the biggest topics in nursing. Creative recruiting Recruiting is a huge piece of the puzzle, especially amid the nursing shortage.

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Healthcare Needs More Nurse Educators to Combat Nursing Shortages

Northeastern State University

The association described this as “a major bottleneck” for nursing education and warned that it “further limits the students a program can accept.” ” What Is Causing the Nursing Shortage? Nurses are burning out : After years of high turnover, the trend of voluntary attrition appears to be leveling.