Here is a number to sit with: it now takes the average hospital seventy-eight days to hire one experienced registered nurse. Two and a half months, for one hire. And in the same year, the average hospital lost $5.19 million to nurse turnover. Those figures come from the 2026 edition of the NSI Natio...
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Two sets of numbers came out this spring, and they only make sense read together. The first is unambiguously good news. Applications to nursing school are surging. Entry-level bachelor's enrollment rose 7.6%, to 283,303 students. After years of anxious talk about whether anyone still wants this job,...
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For the first time since the pandemic, most of the numbers in nursing's annual scoreboard are moving in the right direction. Turnover fell for the third year running. Hospitals added nearly a hundred thousand nurses to their payrolls. Even the time it takes to fill a vacancy shrank, by three whole d...
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The job of a nurse doesn’t follow the schedule of other professionals. People don’t stop getting sick just because it’s summer — if anything the opposite, with Covid-19 numbers rising again. No long summer break for us! That sucks — but we can still use this season to stop and look at where we are …...
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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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We all know about it: there is a shortage of experienced nurses across the United States. The nursing shortage is real, as the demand for nurses continues to exceed the supply. It affects everyone, but the nursing shortage is felt particularly acutely in states such as Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virgi...
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Are there enough nurses in the country? If you said no to that question, you would be right. But don’t just take our word for it. Let’s look at the numbers. A Million Job Openings The number of Registered Nurses has been increasing rapidly — just look at the chart below! According to the government'...
Read more →Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com For years, we heard that a nursing shortage was imminent, projected to reach monumental proportions by the second to third decade of the new millennium and threatening to bring the U.S. healthcare system to its knees. However, many feel that there is now, in fact, a nursing...
Read more →The nursing profession enjoys a high rate of approval in the court of public opinion as a profession of “honesty and ethical standards.” Unfortunately, despite the public’s esteemed view of registered nurses, this perception has not inspired legions of individuals to enter the profession and boost t...
Read more →Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com The United States is going to need 5.6 million new healthcare workers by 2020, according to a new study be researchers at Georgetown University. All but 1 million of those new workers are going to require post-secondary education, according to this article on Nurse.com....
Read more →Rob – Fotolia.com This article in Forbes questions whether nursing has been overhyped as a career. It concludes, however, that nursing is still extraordinarily strong, even if the ebb and flow of jobs has not progressed exactly as predicted. Many nursing schools increased their enrollments due to pr...
Read more →The nursing shortage is not uniform right now, as some geographical areas have plenty of nurses while others don’t, and some fields or specialties are facing shortages while others aren’t. One field that is currently looking for more nurses is mental health. The associate vice president of behaviora...
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