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What States Are RNs in Highest Demand?

The Gypsy Nurse

Some states are desperately seeking RNs to keep up with patient care demands. An aging population, nurse burnout, and a wave of retirements among experienced nurses have left many facilities scrambling to fill gaps. and the highest-paying travel nursing location, California has about 8.34

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

Daily Nurse

Anne Dabrow Woods has incredible insight into nursing as a practicing critical care nurse practitioner and nursing educator with over 39 years of experience and counting. There are several temporary solutions to address staffing shortages and burnout, like gig apps and traveling nursing.

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Licensed Practical Nurses: Advancing, Succeeding & Achieving

American Nurse

There are over 630,000 active licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs) in the United States and 2,700 are in the State of Delaware. Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. References Jones, C. McCollum, M.,

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7 Strategies for Mitigating the Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Relias

Enhanced benefits, such as better retirement plans and childcare discounts. Compare the risk of carrying a high number of vacancies, which could threaten your quality of care, to the financial impact of offering additional employee compensation or benefits. “One 5 – Consider arrangements with other care facilities and organizations.

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Agency Nursing… the Good, the Bad, the Beautiful

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Imagine, all those agencies and all those nurses and yet the field remains mysterious. I had the privilege of working as a local agency nurse for a little over 2 years. I worked in medical rehab centers, long term care, drug & alcohol rehabs, inpatient psych units, and even did some work for insurance companies.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Longer lifespans extend the period when patients need care, intensifying demands on an already strained healthcare system and worsening the nursing shortage. In 2022, the median age of employed registered nurses was 46 years old, and more than 25% of all RNs say they will retire or leave the nursing field within the next five years.