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From Retirement to Preferment: Crafting Your Next Chapter

American Nurse

Preferment offers a fulfilling and personalized alternative to conventional retirement, catering to our unique needs by shifting the focus from winding down to pursuing passions and meaningful activities. The backstory Retirement traditionally marks the end of a career and the beginning of a leisurely, passive phase of life.

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Shenandoah University and Valley Health Partner to Tackle Nursing Shortage 

Daily Nurse

In collaboration with Valley Health and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA), Shenandoah University is working to tackle the region’s nursing shortage through a program that will enhance the training of aspiring nurses and create a sustainable pipeline of new healthcare professionals.

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

Nurses are essential to healthcare, yet nursing shortages have persisted for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these shortages to crisis levels, with demand for nurses outpacing supply in nearly every region. What’s Causing Nursing Shortages? million registered nurses nationwide.

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California makes RN license for retired nurses

Becker's Hospital Review

California is addressing its nursing shortage by creating a license for retired nurses to volunteer with a limited scope of practice.

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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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Nurse Staffing Standards Act Is First Step in Solving Nursing Shortage

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The nursing shortage continues, with no end in sight. Working nurses are suffering burnout from caring for so many patients that they know nursing care is being missed. Nurse educators do our best, but we know that we are sending new graduates into the fire.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. This is the state of nursing. pdf Wolters Kluwer.