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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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The Nursing Shortage: Looking Ahead to 2023

Nurse.com

Statistics show the nursing shortage is still a crisis, but 2023 could be a turning point. Front-line nurse don’t need numbers to know that the nursing shortage is wreaking havoc on their workplaces. The financial cost of the nursing shortage couldn’t be clearer. Numbers tell a dire story.

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

Concerns of a nationwide nursing shortage have loomed for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only fast-tracked the profession toward crisis. Nursing is integral to safe healthcare delivery, and the threat of a nursing shortage should concern everyone. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age.

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To Build the Workforce, We Need More Nurse Educators

Nurse.com

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) echoed that language. Its Survey on Vacant Faculty Positions for Academic Year 2022-2023 reported that 8.8% of the nation’s full-time nurse faculty positions are vacant — nearly a full point higher than the previous year (8%). nursing schools were turned away in 2021.

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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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Think Tank Addresses Nurse Staffing and Working Conditions

Nurse.com

The think tank convened six times between January and March 2022 and brought together key stakeholders, including front-line nurses, to develop a toolkit that offers actionable strategies to address staffing ratios, nurse stress and burnout, and other workforce challenges.

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High school nurse camp

American Nurse

A pipeline for rebuilding the nursing workforce Takeaways: Solving the nursing shortage requires creative recruitment strategies. An immersive experience at one hospital allowed students to witness the nursing role and its impact. The nurse residency coordinator served as team leader.