Every two years, the boards of nursing survey the entire profession. Not a panel, not a customer list, but a stratified sample drawn from the licensure database itself. The 2024 edition landed in April, and it is the best picture anyone has of who is actually doing this job. It contains the single m...
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“A perfect storm is coming for nurses,” we wrote last week. Right when the number of senior citizens who need complex medical care is about to rise sharply, a million baby boomer RNs with a deep and long experience in nursing are set to leave the profession. The costs could be enormous. But they can...
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A perfect storm is coming for nurses. Just when the number of senior citizens who need complex medical care is set to rise sharply, no fewer than one million nurses are leaving the profession. The reason for both things is the same: the baby boomer generation. Many nurses now approaching retirement...
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Kay Hodges is New Jersey's oldest licensed registered nurse. She’s also the Public Health Nurse for the borough of Emerson, New Jersey. That makes her easily the oldest licensed registered nurse of the state, and quite probably the oldest in the country. “Crazy, isn’t it? I always wanted to be a nur...
Read more →auremar – Fotolia.com With each passing year the nursing profession loses a higher number of nurses to retirement than it can replace, and facilities have been actively working to identify retention strategies. While some nurses retire early to pursue other careers, it appears that there are ways to...
Read more →The average age of nurses is currently 46, according to this article in USA Today. Many baby boomers have retired or will be in the next decade or so. Nursing is a very physical job, and the requirements of the job such as lifting patients and standing for long periods can become too much for many o...
Read more →Alexander Raths – Fotolia.com Baby Boomers a Driving Force Behind Demand for Nurses In its biannual Employment Outlook report, the U.S. Department of Labor stated that the healthcare and social assistance fields would experience the highest growth for new jobs, with more than 5 million new workers n...
Read more →One of the next greatest challenges that the US health care system faces is the aging of the baby boomers. The year 2011 marks the year that the first baby boomer turns 65. Before 20 years are up there will be over 70 million people that are 65 or older. As people age, they usually need more healthc...
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