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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.

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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

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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.

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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%.

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Paramedics help alleviate ED staffing issues

American Nurse

Paramedics can play an essential role as healthcare evolves and organizations struggle to meet an increasing health demands in the midst of a nursing shortage. As nursing shortages around the United States continue to grow, including in emergency departments (EDs), hospital systems seek innovative solutions. Br Paramed J.

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NCLEX to Be Changed as Fail Rates Climb

Scrubs

Just ask any licensed registered nurse. But more and more students are having trouble passing the exam, which is only compounding the ongoing nurse shortage. The health crisis forced nursing schools to conduct their operations online, depriving thousands of aspiring nurses the chance to learn and practice their skills in person.

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How the Public’s Perception of Nursing Impacts the Profession

Nurse.com

For decades, nurses were only cast as women and were traditionally background characters acting on the periphery or supporting male doctors, surgeons, etc. Many female nurses have courageously shared their stories and lobbied for better policies to be put in place to protect them.