Empowered Nurses

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The healthcare industry is facing a perplexing and unfortunate contradiction: hospitals are laying off nurses even as a nationwide nursing shortage continues to worsen. For those of us who live and breathe nursing, this seems illogical—how can hospitals justify layoffs when they struggle to staff their units adequately?

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American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. This is the state of nursing. pdf Wolters Kluwer.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nurses were burning out, and our healthcare model was breaking. We watched as the first wave of nurses opted to retire early or leave the profession to maintain their sanity. During this time, I remember asking other nurses what should be done to help with the impending nurse shortage.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 23, 2023

This has resulted in large numbers of nurses and other healthcare workers retiring or simply leaving the profession. These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

Concerns of a nationwide nursing shortage have loomed for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only fast-tracked the profession toward crisis. Nursing is integral to safe healthcare delivery, and the threat of a nursing shortage should concern everyone. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age.

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The Gypsy Nurse

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This model has been particularly advantageous for healthcare facilities experiencing nursing shortages, seasonal peaks, or specialized care needs that require expertise that isnt available locally. In recent years, the demand for travel nurses has surged due to the strain on the healthcare system. Nursing Shortage: The U.S.

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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.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The nursing shortage has always gotten attention, but the faculty shortage much less so. Full-time positions for nurse educators aren’t the only ones sitting vacant, however. “The Efforts to alleviate the nursing shortage must focus on addressing the nurse faculty shortage as a priority,” she said.

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SelfCare for HealthCare

JULY 5, 2023

In its first report on the state of the world’s nursing, the World Health Organization estimated that an additional six million nurses will be needed by 2030. This is a 20% increase from the current total global nursing stock of 27.9 In addition, the burden of anticipated retirement over the next decade means that 4.7

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SelfCare for HealthCare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The country may see a nursing shortage of between 200,000 and 450,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2025 if healthcare stakeholders and federal leaders do not take action to address the dwindling workforce, according to a report from McKinsey & Company. Among those RNs, 15 percent intended to leave the workforce altogether.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 20, 2025

As healthcare continues to grapple with an anticipated nursing shortage , a growing number of organizations are looking beyond borders for a sustainable solution. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the shortage could exceed 125,000. Retirements exceed the number of new grads. By 2030, the U.S.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 5, 2025

Some common goals for virtual nursing include reducing time spent completing administrative tasks, such as admissions and discharges, and giving time back to bedside nurses.

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Becker's Hospital Review

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The nursing shortage in the US continues to be fueled by an aging population in need of care, baby boomer retiring nurses, and new entrants in the nursing profession, many of whom leave the workforce after a short period of time.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

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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American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This review examines the nursing shortage crisis’ sources, effects, and solutions. Nursing Shortages Causes Rising Demand and Aging Population The US population is aging, with Baby Boomers retiring. Nursing Workforce Demographics Nurses are aging and retiring.

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Nurse Deck

JANUARY 20, 2023

The ongoing nursing shortage is a big problem in today’s healthcare field. Many issues in the healthcare system stem from the lack of competent nurses that can care for patients properly. This is what is going on with the nursing shortage and what you need to know about it. How bad is the nursing shortage?

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Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

Nurses at the forefront of healthcare continue to face challenges that change how we provide Nursing care to our patients. As the Nursing field continues to evolve, here are some of the top Nursing trends to watch in 2023 and for the years to come. We can expect travel Nursing to continue to grow in popularity.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 30, 2023

Flexibility and innovative practice models can enhance retention of nurses reaching retirement age. Most nurses aged 55 and older have such passion for their work that providing schedule flexibility and different practice models to focus on their strengths could go a long way in keeping them in the workforce, a new study says.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The hospital association says it is focusing advocacy on workplace violence, Medicare residency slots, the nursing shortage, and workforce diversity. Health systems and hospitals are facing workforce shortages across the full spectrum of their employees. The nursing shortage did not happen overnight.

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Relias

JUNE 2, 2023

These difficult circumstances call for innovative approaches to safeguard care quality and protect nurses from overwork and burnout. Healthcare organizations need to take innovative and strategic approaches to overcome the challenges of the current healthcare landscape, and nursing shortage solutions are one of the first needs to address.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 13, 2025

A Response to a Nationwide RN Shortage The timing couldn’t be more critical. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an estimated 193,000 RN openings are projected annually through 2032, driven by a wave of retirements, increased patient demand, and turnover fueled by burnout and systemic challenges. According to the U.S. Colorado is no exception.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

million Americans reached the retirement milestone of 65, the most significant surge in U.S. 2 As the demand for healthcare increases, so does the need for nurses and other healthcare practitioners trained to care for an aging population a specialty known as geriatrics. .* In the United States, individuals over 65+ represented 17.3%

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American Nurse

AUGUST 30, 2023

The nursing shortage is as old as the dawn of modern nursing itself. Of the 38 nurses under the supervision of Florence Nightingale and who arrived with her in Scutari on November 4, 1854, three were gone by January 1855. What the NCSBN and other nursing workforce studies don’t report is what became of the ex-nurses.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 16, 2023

So in challenging and fraught times, it’s always to our advantage to embrace and honor what every generation of nurses brings. While human nature may lend itself to older generations casting a wary eye on up-and-coming generations, there should be no room for such cynicism in nursing.

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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.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 13, 2023

Nurses want flexibility and health systems aren't giving it to them. Nearly all—94%—of 100 health system executives surveyed described the severity of the nursing shortage in their health systems as “critical,” and 68% indicated they don’t have enough nurses to manage another large-scale health crisis, a new report says.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 4, 2024

At a time when rising demand for healthcare and a retiring nursing workforce are contributing to a critical need for nurses nationwide, the University of Vermont’s new Direct Entry Master of Science in Nursing program offers a fast track for career-changers looking to enter the nursing profession.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 5, 2023

Care models had not wavered much since hospitals became medicalized in the early 20 th century, and particularly since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were created in 1965, says Jason Gilbert, PhD MBA RN NEA-BC , executive vice president and chief nurse executive, Indiana University Health.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

More RNs are leaving the workforce due to factors ranging from burnout to retirement. Pillar: Nursing Link: Full story Article Source: The Business Journals Tags: HR nursing staffing Secondary Pillars: Human Resources Article Type: News Published Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Hide sidebars: Render small main image:

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Diversity Nursing

APRIL 21, 2023

million in 2031, an increase of 195,400 Nurses. The Bureau also projects 203,200 openings for RNs each year through 2031 when Nurse retirements and workforce exits are factored into the number of Nurses needed in the U.S. The RN workforce is expected to grow from 3.1 million in 2021 to 3.3

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Northeastern State University

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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? A degree in nursing education is an ideal path to making an impact on widespread demand.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

.” Older nurses and those with physical limitations can also use this technology to administer care without putting additional stress on their bodies. A record number of nurses have retired since the COVID-19 pandemic and this approach could bring them back into the fold.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 18, 2023

Mandated ratios are typically based on traditional nursing care models, AONL said, which are becoming outdated and more nursing practices embrace innovation, advanced capabilities in technology, and collaborative interprofessional care teams. Further, the nursing shortage has reached a crisis stage, some nursing organizations say.

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Scrubs

MAY 9, 2023

May started working as a nurse with the Cadet Nurse Corps, a program created to help alleviate the nursing shortage before and during WWII. After training as a nurse, she worked at various VA hospitals before coming to Shriners, where she was promoted to head nurse of the boys’ ward and worked there until retirement.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

These opportunities inspired younger generations to choose nursing as a career. With retirement and the ongoing nurse shortage , this influx of young nurses during the pandemic was more necessary than ever.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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