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Study Reveals the Enduring Effects of the COVID Pandemic 

Daily Nurse

In normal conditions, the NCSBN would anticipate that some 150,000 RNs would have left the workforce during the last two years, due largely to planned retirements, as well as normal pursuit of education and career change, says Brendan Martin, PhD, director of research at NCSBN in an interview. million licensed RNs in the U.S.,

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Nurse Who Quit Bedside to Be a Trucker Says “No Regrets”

Scrubs

The Canadian licensed vocational nurse ended her 15-year career in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic after her applications to nursing school kept getting rejected. “I I was just going to regret my career being where it was and not being able to advance was really maddening to me,” Gorham told CNN back in 2021. “I