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]. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Experienced nurses leaving the bedside leave a large and dangerous void.

Retirement

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.”

Nursing Strikes

Daily Nurse

APRIL 28, 2023

Retirement : Another issue is the substantial number of nurses nearing retirement age. Per a 2020 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the average age for a registered nurse (RN) was 52 years old, potentially signaling a large wave of retirements over the next 15 years.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

AUGUST 30, 2023

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? Gone are the days when one entered the profession as a bedside nurse and existed as one at retirement. What are they doing now? Can you imagine?

Bedside nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Recruitment and retention are particularly difficult right now in healthcare, especially in nursing. Health systems are struggling to find new nurses who will stay at their hospitals permanently. Many veteran nurses are retiring and taking their knowledge and experience with them.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The action taken to mitigate the nursing shortage also must involve new graduate nurses, who will replace bedside nurses leaving to pursue higher education or retire. Alyssa King, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC, CLC, CNE is a Nurse Planner in Lake City, Fla. References Advisory Board.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The American Hospital Association reported a 30% loss in the nursing workforce between 2019 and 2020; the United States will need 200,000 RNs each year to replace retirements alone. As aging nurses leave the workforce, their valuable experience, efficiency, critical thinking, and leadership skills follow.

LPN

Nurse.com

MAY 11, 2022

“Many students do not have the opportunity to be precepted by a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner, and often must reach out to master’s level NPs or physicians to serve as preceptors during their DNP program,” Stewart said. Salary for DNP Nurses. According to the U.S.

Education

American Nurse

APRIL 2, 2024

The challenge A longstanding shortage of nursing school faculty and a reliance on new graduate nurses to serve as preceptors create challenges to properly preparing nursing students for a demanding role that requires excellent critical thinking skills.

Preceptors

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 194,500 average annual openings for registered nurses, and nurse employment will grow 9% through 2030. 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.

Nurse Shortage