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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

Nurses are essential to healthcare, yet nursing shortages have persisted for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these shortages to crisis levels, with demand for nurses outpacing supply in nearly every region. What’s Causing Nursing Shortages? million registered nurses nationwide.

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Multistate Nurse Licensing: What You Need to Know

Scrubs

continues to grapple with a nursing shortage, many nurses are starting to work across state lines, including travel nurses and those looking for new career opportunities. Navigating each state’s licensing requirements can be daunting to say the least, especially if you’re already working full time at a hospital.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Maribeth McLaughlin, vice president and chief nurse executive at UPMC, says the COVID-19 pandemic also contributed to this issue. During the pandemic, if you think about back in the beginning in 2020,” McLaughlin says, “for many of us, our pipelines with the schools of nursing, our academic partners…really kind of fell apart.”

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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. The growth rate in 2020 was only about 1 percent due to the pandemic.

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Nursing Shortage Solutions Are Happening — Because They Must

Relias

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. 62% of nurses reported an increase in workload during the pandemic. in the two years since the 2020 survey.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

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. Not auspicious data next to the ever-increasing nursing shortage. The reason?

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

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.