Nursing

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…

Becker’s compiled a list of hospitals that earned five-star ratings for nurse communication in each state, according to CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures.…

NYU Langone, a seven-hospital system based in New York City, reduced systemwide nursing support staff turnover rates from from 14.5% to 8.4% in eight months, according to research published in Nurse Leader.  The system linked the 40%-plus turnover reduction to…

Nurses are less likely to leave when they have greater responsibility for patient care, according to an article published in Harvard Business Review. The study followed 430 full-time ICU nurses at a large U.S. hospital over 26 months. Researchers analyzed…

Four Massachusetts hospitals and universities are partnering to launch nursing apprenticeships. The program is funded by $240,000 in grants from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. They will be implemented by the Massachusetts Nursing Council on Workforce Sustainability…

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing found the District of Columbia has the most licensed nurses per capita, while Utah is the state with the fewest for the second year in a row. The organization created a course…

Most of the top-paying states for nurses, adjusted for cost of living, are in the Midwest or the West, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Becker’s used the latest BLS data, released May 15 and up to date as…