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6 Creative Strategies To Solve the Nursing Shortage

Nurse.com

We watched as the first wave of nurses opted to retire early or leave the profession to maintain their sanity. During this time, I remember asking other nurses what should be done to help with the impending nurse shortage. Most hospitals eventually adopted the all-BSN staff model, pushing out less educated nurses.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

The goal behind the grant program, according to the HRSA, is to forge a pathway for students to enter the clinical environment by creating and implementing Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurse (RN) bridge programs, and the employment of clinical nurse faculty.

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How Nurse Licensure Compacts Can Ease Chronic Nursing Shortages

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse Licensure Compacts (NLCs) may be “one tool in the toolbox” to help ease chronic nursing shortages reaching into every state and practically every health facility, says Nicole Livanos , director of state affairs at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

They recognized that teamwork, delegation, and communication among RNs, licensed professional nurses (LPNs), and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) must play a role. See A national problem ) A national problem Acute care facilities have long faced a nationwide nursing shortage. J Nurses Prof Dev. StatPearls.

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Everyone Needs a Nurse

American Nurse

The nursing shortage discussion has been around for as long as I have been a nurse…. We were told in the 1980s that all nurses would have BSNs by the mid-1990s. The nursing shortage would end improving forever patient outcomes and we would all be happy and sing Kum Ba Ya. Will nursing shortages ever end?

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U. of Montana to Bolster the Big Sky Country's Nursing Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

Rural Montana is particularly feeling the effects of this [nursing] shortage," said Lily Apedaile , director of the Office of Health Research & Partnership, one of three UM organizations that will implement the new training program. These RN preceptors will receive specialized training to strengthen the nursing education workforce.

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Top 5 Workforce Focuses from AONL 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

Turnover rates are high among frontline nurses and in leadership positions, and even though predictions are positive, the current nursing shortage is going strong. The nurse leaders in attendance offered many creative and innovative solutions for the different prongs of the workforce crisis.

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