Nursing
Nurse burnout is often framed as a staffing or clinical issue. Data from a national survey of more than 2,600…
Healthcare leaders have sophisticated calculations to determine the cost of nurse turnover, but there is no model to estimate the societal cost of a nurse leaving the profession, Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, a nurse scientist and associate professor at Columbus-based…
Young nurses are no longer the most burned-out group in the profession, a significant reversal from 2022 when nurses under 35 were the workforce’s most stressed and most likely to quit, according to a study published in the Journal of…
An independent investigation into the cases of 11 current and former nurses at Newton (Mass.)-Wellesley Hospital who were found to have tumors concluded the tumors were not associated with the workplace, the Boston Herald reported June 14. An investigation was…
Virginia will shift oversight of several nursing scholarship programs to the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority after state officials found that millions of dollars allocated to the programs had gone unused, according to a June 9 report from Cardinal News.…
The share of men in the U.S. registered nursing workforce increased from 8% in 2015 to 11.2% in 2022 before declining to 10.4% in 2024, according to the AACN’s Nursing Workforce Fact Sheet, updated in May. The picture on a…
Fifteen percent of nurses are working a second job, according to the 2026 Nurse.org State of Nursing Survey. Another estimate puts this at 50%. This can create a patient safety blind spot that health system leaders are largely not equipped…
Among seven nurse positions, four saw a decrease in projected growth in 2025 after rates remained fairly steady for the past few years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projected 10-year growth data for the past five years for all seven…
Licensed practical and vocational nurses saw the highest annual mean pay jump in 2024, while nurse practitioners had the highest growth in number of employed nurses across all settings, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The bureau gathered employment…
New Brunswick, N.J.-based Children’s Specialized Hospital’s Kelly Marcoux, PhD, CCRN, was named the inaugural recipient of the Society of Pediatric Nurses Daisy Award of the Year in Pediatric Nursing. Dr. Marcoux, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing…
The American Nurses Association and nine other national nursing organizations sued the Education Department on May 29, challenging the exclusion of advanced nursing degrees from the federal definition of “professional degree” under a final rule that caps graduate and professional…