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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. Nursing shortage insights.

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How Automation Gives Nurses More Time for Patient Care 

Daily Nurse

I began my career as a bedside nurse in the 1990s. An ICU nurse today may be caring for three to four patients at a time while training new staff and performing other administrative tasks like clinical data abstraction. The nursing shortage, unfortunately, will only worsen as older nurses retire from the workforce.

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Virtual Nursing Will Be Nonnegotiable: Here's How CNOs Can Prepare

Health Leaders | Nursing

Some common goals for virtual nursing include reducing time spent completing administrative tasks, such as admissions and discharges, and giving time back to bedside nurses.

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Virtual Nursing Is Only Half the Equation for Offloading Nurse Burden

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse leaders should leverage both virtual nursing and multidisciplinary care teams to remove burdens from the bedside nurse, say these nurse leaders. Virtual nursing will continue to become the standard of care in health systems across the industry.

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Here Are 4 Ways CNOs Can Drive Down Costs

Health Leaders | Nursing

Cost containment is an issue throughout all of healthcare, and because of the nursing shortage, keeping costs down has become an even more difficult task. According to Gail Vozzella, senior vice president and chief nurse executive at Houston Methodist, the nursing shortage drives up labor costs and turnover costs in nursing.

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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. They sense, perceive, connect, communicate, and solve.