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Retired Nurses Find New Purpose in Resettling Afghan Refugees

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has taken in some 76,000 Afghan refugees since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in the summer of 2021. Both retired nurses said the experience has been extremely rewarding. We’re it. It makes them feel welcome, and that they’re loved.” ” The U.S. “But this is more fulfilling.”

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

This Mayo Clinic study from 2021 surveyed the pandemic’s impact on clinicians. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Analysis from 2022 found that the total number of registered nurses decreased by more than 100,000 between 2020 and 2021 –the most significant observed drop in the past 40 years.

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To Build the Workforce, We Need More Nurse Educators

Nurse.com

The AACN said in its 2021–2022 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing report that 91,938 qualified applications to U.S. nursing schools were turned away in 2021. This study also estimated that one-third of nurse educators in 2015 would be retired by 2025. “It

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80% of Nurses Plan to Remain on the Job Until Retirement

Health Leaders | Nursing

Despite the nursing industry’s challenges, 80% of nurses plan to stay with their profession until retirement even though most (84%) do not think issues such as understaffing, burnout and pay are improving quickly enough, a new study reveals.

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Safe Staffing Saves Lives

Daily Nurse

In May of 2021, a bill was introduced to the Senate and House of Representatives regarding federally mandated safe nursing standards, which dictate hospitals’ responsibilities and expectations, nurse-to-patient ratios, and unsafe working conditions to which nurses may object. There has been no movement on this bill since May 13, 2021.

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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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Shenandoah University and Valley Health Partner to Tackle Nursing Shortage 

Daily Nurse

NextGen Nurses program draws upon the expertise of semi-retired and retiring nurses to help train the next generation of nurses before they leave the profession.