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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

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. in 2021 to 5.0% J Nurs Manag.

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When Is It Time to Advance Your Nursing Education? 

Minority Nurse

When you started, you may have earned your LPN, RN, or BSN, and you moved forward into your career with all sorts of hopes, goals, and aspirations. In the original 2011 Future of Nursing Report by the National Academy of Medicine, the recommendation was for the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses to be increased by 80% by 2020.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Many veteran nurses are retiring and taking their knowledge and experience with them. 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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Nurses With DNP Degree Are Sorely Needed in Health Care and Education

Nurse.com

Nurses have many points of entry into the nursing profession — and, ultimately, to a Doctor of Nursing Practice, including entering as licensed practical nurses (LPN) or licensed vocational nurses (LVN). Another concern is that the nursing workforce is aging and retiring, creating shortages in practice, education, and leadership. “We

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. I earned my LPN in 2011, then passed the NCLEX-RN in 2012 after graduating from Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Nursing is a second career for Derek J. I work in the world of the ‘dying.’

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Nurse leaders of color: Candid conversations

American Nurse

Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t wavered much and continue at a time when nurses are retiring and leaving the workforce for various reasons, including fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. I started my career in nursing as an LPN [licensed practical nurse] and then became an RN.” I think I’m in year 36 [of practice].