Nursing Times

JULY 22, 2025

This has recently been updated this year and renamed the Experience of Care Improvement Framework. This is especially worrying given the wealth of nursing experience being lost before retirement age and the challenges in recruiting new nurses.

Self-Care

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.

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Now, as a nurse manager at HUMC, Porter’s great-grandmother’s influence is at work caring for elder care patients and as an adjunct clinical instructor for Muhlenberg Nursing School, part of JFK University Medical Center in Plainfield, N.J. Then COVID hit in 2020, and my manager decided she would retire. I love working with patients.

Nurse Manager

Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Telesitting, telenursing, and virtual nursing programs saw a dramatic increase during the pandemic, when hospital leadership sought to reduce contact between infected patients and their staff to curb the spread of the virus. They're getting tired, and many are considering retirement," she says. "We

Chief Nursing Officer

Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. This could help Trinity and other health systems retain nurses who are considering leaving or retiring.

Telemedicine

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Both specialists and generalists can function in leadership roles. Frequently, a new graduate’s expectation of their role requires better alignment with organization and leadership expectations. BMC nursing leadership and frontline nurses suggested establishing expert nurses dedicated to supporting new graduates working night shift.

Professional Development

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

At the same time, more nurses will retire, with more than one-fifth of the nation’s nursing workforce considering retirement within the next five years. This category includes veteran nurses who will leave the healthcare industry and begin retirement. The post The Nursing Shortage and Patient Safety appeared first on Relias.

Nurse Shortage