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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

Nurses are essential to healthcare, yet nursing shortages have persisted for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these shortages to crisis levels, with demand for nurses outpacing supply in nearly every region. What’s Causing Nursing Shortages? million registered nurses nationwide.

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NY Bill Addresses State’s Critical Nursing Shortage 

Daily Nurse

New York passed a bill addressing the state’s nursing shortage. The new legislation permits nursing programs to provide up to one-third of a student’s clinical work in a high-tech simulation environment. New York is projected to need more than 40,000 nurses by 2030. SUNY Chancellor John B.

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Critical Nursing Shortage Jeopardizes the Health of our Communities, Pending NYS Bill Can Help

Daily Nurse

These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2 million healthcare workers by 2026. million healthcare workers by 2026.

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The Nursing Shortage: Foreign-Educated Workers Aren’t a Long-Term Solution

Amercan Journal of Nursing

However, a report from the International Centre on Nursing Migration (ICNM) estimates that more than three times that number will be needed by 2030. Globally, the World Health Organization projects a shortage of 7 million nurses and midwives by 2030. Reducing reliance on foreign-educated nurses.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

Amidst a sea of temporary band-aid solutions for nursing, like gig apps and travel nurses, Woods , DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, the Chief Nurse of Health Learning, Research and Practice, Wolters Kluwer spoke with Daily Nurse to discuss her practical, long-term solutions to address the nursing shortage and burnout.

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Healthcare facilities to see worsened nursing shortage by 2027

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurses are continuing to leave the workforce, and there arent enough graduates entering the nursing field to fill the gaps - this information was recently announced by the Maine Nursing Action Coalition.

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Huge Nursing Shortage

SelfCare for HealthCare

million nurses in the next decade. In its first report on the state of the world’s nursing, the World Health Organization estimated that an additional six million nurses will be needed by 2030. This is a 20% increase from the current total global nursing stock of 27.9 The world faces a deficit of 13.5