article thumbnail

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. This is the state of nursing. February 27, 2019.

article thumbnail

Critical Nursing Shortage Jeopardizes the Health of our Communities, Pending NYS Bill Can Help

Daily Nurse

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

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Understanding and Navigating the Nurse Shortage

Premier Medical Staffing

Job Information Job Profession: Understanding and Navigating the Nurse Shortage Job State: Job Location: Job Specialty: Job Assignment: Why is there a nurse shortage? It’s no secret that the healthcare world is experiencing a shortage of one of its main resources: nurses. Studies have projected that 1.2

article thumbnail

Nursing Shortage Crisis

SelfCare for HealthCare

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.

article thumbnail

Gallup Poll: Nurses’ Ethics Still Top the List

Daily Nurse

Physicians still rate high at 59% despite a 9-point drop from 65% in 2019. Pharmacists are consistently good performers in the Gallup poll, although they, too, have seen a drop from 64 to 55% between 2019 and 2023. Dentists, currently the fourth most ethically viewed profession at 59%, also took a dive from a 2019 result of 61%.

article thumbnail

Are Hospitals to Blame for the Nursing Shortage? Nurses and Hospitals Weigh In

Scrubs

National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, just released a statement blaming hospitals for the recent nursing shortage. Buerhaus disagrees with the union’s assertion that hospitals are to blame for the shortage. In 2019, that number went up to 70,000.

article thumbnail

Travel Nursing Pre and Post-Pandemic

The Gypsy Nurse

Now that COVID-19 is slowly receding from the headlines, we should take time to consider how the pandemic affected nursing, specifically travel nursing. Travel Nursing Before COVID Since the mid-1930s, the U.S. has had periods with notable nurse shortages that put a strain on the American healthcare system.