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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff. She’ll graduate with her doctorate in nursing practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in December 2023.

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South Carolina Board of Nursing 2024 Licensure Renewal Facts

American Nurse

The number of APRNs, particularly, Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs) are the fastest growing segment of our total licensees with almost 11,000 active licensees across the state at present. The key question is do we have the supply we need to satisfy the demand as nurses retire and/or leave the profession.

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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.