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When Is It Time to Advance Your Nursing Education? 

Minority Nurse

Nursing education can be a lifelong process. You may have wanted to work in a particular specialty, had your sights set on the traveler lifestyle, or were focused on making sure you could pay the bills, give your kids a good life, and plan for your eventual retirement.

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

They found that 1/3 of surveyed physicians and nurses planned to reduce work hours within a year, and approximately 40% of nurses planned to leave their current jobs within two years [3]. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Experienced nurses leaving the bedside leave a large and dangerous void.

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Healthcare Needs More Nurse Educators to Combat Nursing Shortages

Northeastern State University

Although enrollment in nursing schools “surged” to nearly a quarter-million in 2020, the AACN reported in a separate survey , that nearly 81,000 qualified applicants were denied admission to nursing programs due to the shortage. ” What Is Causing the Nursing Shortage?

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

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.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

Quite understandably, the pandemic and its aftermath have become the default explanation of life’s many convoluted twists and turns since March 2020. For nursing attrition, it would be too simple to singularly assign blame to the stressful working environments of the pandemic. Where have all the nurses gone? Can you imagine?

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The Strategies One Nursing School Used to Combat Workplace Incivility

Health Leaders | Nursing

When 100% of the nursing faculty at one upstate New York reported incivility as a major departmental issue, they reversed course. Incivility among nurse educators—bullying, disrespect, harassment—is growing and affects new nurses’ view of nursing as a profession, according to a new study published in NursingCenter.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Recruitment and retention are particularly difficult right now in healthcare, especially in nursing. Health systems are struggling to find new nurses who will stay at their hospitals permanently. Many veteran nurses are retiring and taking their knowledge and experience with them.