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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...
We have written about this twice before, in 2022 and again a few weeks later when the response from readers made clear how badly it needed saying. A new survey of nurses came out this summer, and the reason to return to it is that the number has not improved. 84.8% of nurses experienced workplace vi...
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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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Here is a question worth sitting with. If two hospitals in your area quietly agreed not to recruit each other's nurses, how would you ever find out? You would not, mostly. You would just notice that the offers were never quite as good as you expected, that the recruiter from across town never called...
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Six weeks. Two coasts. Forty-six thousand health care workers off the job. The first quarter of 2026 has produced the largest concentration of nursing labour action since the pandemic, and unlike some earlier rounds, it ended in settlements rather than exhaustion. Here is what was won, what it cost...
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On 2 February the federal government formally repealed the minimum staffing rule for nursing homes. It is worth being precise about what that means, because the rule had already been struck down in court and then blocked by Congress. This was the paperwork on a death that happened some time ago. For...
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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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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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It’s Friday afternoon, and a key staff member calls in sick. Your carefully crafted schedule is in jeopardy! That’s when the benefits of hiring for per diem nursing jobs really shine. A skilled per diem nurse is a lifesaver for every harried nursing manager. The upsides of integrating per diem nurse...
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“A regular nurse recruiter won’t do!” Ask us about recruiting nurses, and we can talk to you for hours about the pros and cons of using recruiters to fill nursing jobs. The opportunities and the pitfalls. The advantages of using well-resourced large recruitment agencies vs. hungry individual recruit...
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You post a promising job opening, but barely anyone replies. What do you do? Even experienced recruiters and blue-chip employers can run into trouble with their job posts. That’s why you’ll find approximately 963 articles online about how to improve your job postings and attract higher-quality candi...
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This offer has closed. The $300 referral bonus ran through December 31, 2023. How it worked in a nutshell: you gave us the name, email, and phone number of the employer you were referring, and pointed them to our “Hire Nurses” page so they could find out about all the advantages. If they maintained...
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