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The World Is On Edge…

Life of a Nurse

According to RNAO (2021) 1/3 of nurses 50+ years are considering retirement within 2-5 years. The physicians have a significant pattern of retiring, leaving practices, and not entering family medicine. Four main contributors to the nursing shortage summary: Retiring nurses or those choosing to leave the profession.

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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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Understanding and honoring the needs of Native American elders

American Nurse

Takeaways: Four significant factors compromise care for Native American elders: healthcare disparities, historical trauma, healthcare shortages afflicting rural areas and reservations, and a lack of culturally appropriate care in long-term care facilities. The Indigenous Foundation. January 14, 2019.

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Licensed Practical Nurses: Advancing, Succeeding & Achieving

American Nurse

Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. Additional areas of nursing that LPNs work in are home health, retirement/assisted living facilities, psychiatric/mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient/ambulatory clinics.

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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: The tale of a broken heart

American Nurse

Examples of primary triggers include the loss of a spouse, retirement, birth of a grandchild, loss of a job, new job, bankruptcy, or a natural disaster. Long-term care to assess recovery of their left ventricular function includes lab work and echocardiography. March 9, 2021. Takotsubo syndrome: The great imposter.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. Also, many senior nurses are leaving the workforce and preparing for retirement.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Longer lifespans extend the period when patients need care, intensifying demands on an already strained healthcare system and worsening the nursing shortage. In 2022, the median age of employed registered nurses was 46 years old, and more than 25% of all RNs say they will retire or leave the nursing field within the next five years.