Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Retired nurses offer coaching and mentoring to Novant Health's novice nurses to solve retention challenges. The program not only helps solve retention challenges, but also retains the expertise of experienced nurses to avoid knowledge gaps that can occur when nurses retire and new nurses join the care team.

Retirement

Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. It indicated that the median age of a registered nurse is 46 and estimated that a quarter of nurses plan to retire or leave the profession over the next five years [5]. By 2030, there will be an estimated exodus of one million nurses into retirement [6].

Retirement

Nurse.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The causes included insufficient numbers of nurse faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors , and budget constraints. This study also estimated that one-third of nurse educators in 2015 would be retired by 2025. “It nursing schools were turned away in 2021. And now it’s only three years away.”

Nurse Educator

Empowered Nurses

JANUARY 19, 2023

The nurses negotiated an -increase in over 170 nursing positions, -maintaining fully-funded healthcare for eligible nurses and -lifetime health coverage for eligible retired nurses, -increase in preceptor and charge nurse pay of $5 per hour over standard wages, -an increase for float pool nurses adding more registered nurses and nurse practitioners (..)

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

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 the NCSBN and other nursing workforce studies don’t report is what became of the ex-nurses. What are they doing now? Did they leave the profession entirely?

Bedside nursing

Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture. Participants reported higher satisfaction with orientation and onboarding compared to those without a formal nurse residency program.

Preceptors

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.

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

JUNE 7, 2023

Marilyn “Nia” Wright, MSN, MHA, RN, CNOR, is a retired nurse who can’t stay away from the industry she loves. She retired from her position as senior nursing director of one of the largest and busiest surgical services in Maryland at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (LHAAMC) after serving in that role for over a decade.

Self-Care

Minority Nurse

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2018, following the retirement of the director at the time and a national recruitment effort, I was chosen to advance into the Director of Nursing role. We have modified our nursing preceptor program to enable our most experienced nurse to focus on a core group of new hires.

Leadership

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many veteran nurses are retiring and taking their knowledge and experience with them. The funds can be used for program development, direct LPN/LVN to RN student support, curriculum and partnership development, and for recruiting faculty and clinical preceptors. Support after recruitment How can CNOs build upon this progress?

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession.

Mental Health

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. These retirements result in job openings, which frequently are filled by new nurses with limited clinical exposure.

LPN

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

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.

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. Clinical and lab assignments vary from 4- or 6-hour experiences to 12-hour shifts.

Preceptors

Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture. Participants reported higher satisfaction with orientation and onboarding compared to those without a formal nurse residency program.

Preceptors

American Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

From the nursing students to the wise, experienced retired nurses, their individual and collective contributions were innovative, unwavering, and focused on doing what was right and in the best interest of the patients and public we serve. Those that have inspired you. Individuals that supported you to become the nurse that you are today.

Preceptors

Relias

DECEMBER 15, 2023

13 – Experience It’s important to note that as veteran nurses leave the healthcare field and begin retirement, they’re taking with them years of experience and knowledge that cannot be quickly replaced. Our Focused CE Series on Nursing Preceptor Specialty Practice maximizes nurses’ knowledge on preceptoring.

Preceptors

Relias

JUNE 2, 2023

Organizations should also consider strategies such as bringing retired nurses back as virtual preceptors, seeking more feedback and suggestions from current nurses, providing resources and emotional support, and using non-clinical resources to lighten administrative burdens.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Various specialties, such as the issue of nurses retiring, increase in patients’ acuity levels, and some nurses deciding to leave the profession post-COVID. Providing support to the preceptors and staff nurses in knowing how to incorporate adult learning theories offers additional support to the new nurse being trained.

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A national survey of family caregivers of children with complex medical needs reported that 52 percent of family members had to reduce their work hours, 42 percent took a leave of absence, 31 percent turned down a promotion, and 21 percent gave up working or retired early to meet the care needs of their children (Foster et al.,

Preceptors