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Shapiro visits Temple Health to promote budget proposals to tackle nurse shortage

Health Leaders | Nursing

Josh Shapiro visited Temple University this week where he promoted his $5 million program to address Pennsylvanias nursing shortage. The initiative, aimed at bolstering the states healthcare workforce through tuition assistance and hospital partnerships, is part of the governors 2025-26 budget.

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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. Support new nurses.

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The Irony of Nurse Layoffs During a Nursing Shortage: A Broken System in Crisis

Empowered Nurses

The healthcare industry is facing a perplexing and unfortunate contradiction: hospitals are laying off nurses even as a nationwide nursing shortage continues to worsen. For those of us who live and breathe nursing, this seems illogical—how can hospitals justify layoffs when they struggle to staff their units adequately?

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Penn Nursing Well Represented in New Sigma Book Promoting Health Equity and Well-Being

Penn Nursing

The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems, ranging from inequity to structural racism.

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Top Nursing Specialties for 2025

Diversity Nursing

Geriatric Nurse Practitioner As the global population ages, Geriatric Nurse Practitioners (GNPs) are essential in addressing the unique healthcare needs of older adults. GNPs specialize in managing chronic conditions, promoting healthy aging, and coordinating long-term care. Average Salary: $105,201 per year.

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Why Are Nurses Quitting?

Post University

In the wake of a global pandemic, the nursing shortage has reached crisis levels. High levels of burnout and excessive stress on the job have resulted in nurses quitting across many specialty areas, leaving a void in the healthcare field that is hard to fill without qualified candidates. and 37% in 2023, depending on the state.

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Closing the Nurse Staffing Gap: Why Non-Skilled Support Isn’t the Solution

Empowered Nurses

The nursing shortage is one of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare today. A recent article proposes a solution that sounds logical at first: shift tasks away from nurses and onto non-skilled workers or technology-enabled support systems. Obviously, this was not a solution promoted by nurses.