Rhode Island's entry into the multistate nurse licensure compact took effect Jan. 1, allowing registered nurses, licensed practical, and vocational nurses to practice in person or through a telehealth platform across participating states without needing to reapply for a license in that territory. 

While hospitals and health systems have seen improvements in nurse turnover and recruitment since the height of the pandemic, many continue to have a particularly hard time staffing medical-surgical units. 

AdventHealth needed nurses post-pandemic. Quickly.

When Natalia Cineas, DNP, RN, joined NYC Health + Hospitals as senior vice president and chief nurse executive in 2019, her first major initiative was scaling the system's nurse residency program. Five years later, the program has grown to six times its original size and new-nurse retention has doubled. 

The Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Connecticut is ending its school nurse contract with four schools, wtnh.com reported Jane. 31.

Critics have raised concerns around the NCLEX test and the rate at which students are passing the exam, but chief nursing officers told Becker's there are reasons for the improved scores.

With the national nursing turnover rate hitting 22.5% in 2023, Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope is working hard to create an environment and culture that ensures nursing support.

Florida has seen a 38% reduction in nurse vacancy and turnover rates in the last year, and five hospital strategies are emerging as particularly most effective.

Nurse leaders said they see the most bullying from patient families and staff nurses, and the most violence from patients and patient families, according to an American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation study.

Virtual nursing could be the key to upcoming novel solutions for pressing healthcare issues, according to an article published in AACN Advanced Clinical Care.

With a recent report showing the nurse vacancy rate remains "critical" at 15.7% nationally, many health leaders are shedding light on the importance of reducing these numbers.

Nurses said their favorite tasks were employee engagement and retention efforts and their least favorite tasks were capacity issues, according to an American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation study.

California was the top-paying state for three nursing professions.

Nursing has been ranked as the most trusted profession in America for 22 consecutive years, but trust in it has fallen since 2020, according to Gallup Poll's Most Honest and Ethical Professions survey released Jan. 22.

Impersonators claiming to be from the Kentucky Board of Nursing have been making calls to registered nurses, falsely stating that their licenses are under investigation and asking for payment of a fine, as confirmed by a spokesperson for the Kentucky Nurses Association to Becker's.

California has the highest demand for travel nurses, and med-surg was the specialty in highest demand, according to a Nomad Health report.

Enabling nurse leaders to take days off when needed and supporting work-life balance are the two most effective strategies organizations have used to improve leader job satisfaction, according to an American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation study.

In an interactive session at Becker's 11th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, Curtis Anderson, founder and CEO of Nursa — a healthcare staffing platform — led a discussion with hospital and health system executives on technology-based strategies that address challenges in the nursing workforce. 

The American Nurses Association has come out in support of the federal government's efforts to reconsider the drug classification for marijuana, the organization announced Jan. 18.

Newly released survey findings from National Nurses United indicate a significant proportion of hospital nurses don't have regular access to N95s or other types of respirators, a situation the nation's largest union of registered nurses claims could worsen if the CDC moves forward with draft guidelines that don't make firm recommendations on the use of respirators to prevent the spread of common pathogens like flu and COVID-19.