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By 2028, the national shortage of registered nurses is projected to primarily affect the Northeast, according to Mercer, a financial services company.

In 2024, Florida hospitals reported lower nurse vacancy and turnover rates than the national average, according to a report from the Florida Hospital Association. 

Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare recently hired more than 300 registered nurses as part of the University of Kentucky's implementation of a new graduate recruitment program. 

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper training or experience.

Many hospitals are seeing nurse staffing levels stabilize after several years marked by significant shortages. While a welcome trend for the nation's healthcare system, it presents a new challenge. 

Recently Bloomberg released their first in a series of articles on Advanced Practice Nursing. Practitioners. This first installment focused on nurse practitioner education, offering harmful and unsubstantiated opinions regarding the educational preparation and subsequent care provided by U.S. based Nurse…

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