Nursing

Fifty-five percent of respondents in a recent poll said their hospital does not currently have a strong nurse residency program in place, despite nurse leaders citing such programs as a key retention tool, particularly among new nurses. 

The American Association for Men in Nursing has named 13 schools in the U.S. as the top nursing programs for male nursing students.

The idea that nursing is not a career but a calling is "false and misleading" and may be an underlying cause of burnout and compassion fatigue in the field, Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, wrote in an opinion piece published on…

Stress, burnout and frustration in the workplace have resulted in workforce trends such as "quiet quitting" and "rage applying," and hospitals are taking aim at the issues that give rise to these movements.

A Texas nurse became the first Black woman to be inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nurses, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Nov. 16.

In conversations about the nursing shortage, healthcare leaders often underscore the importance of building a pipeline by stirring interest among younger generations, and getting in front of high schoolers and middle schoolers. But is the industry fully ready to embrace…

The healthcare sector as a whole received $333.3 billion in philanthropic donations between 2015 and 2022. But despite nursing being one of the largest groups of clinicians, nurses received only 1% of those donations, according to a Nov. 15 report…

In just one year, the nurse practitioner profession has added 30,000 employees to the workforce, according to data released Nov. 13 by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

The number of nurse practitioners has grown 8.5% since 2022, American Association of Nurse Practitioners data found.

The nurse staffing crisis is not new, but it has reached the proverbial breaking point, Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association, wrote in an op-ed piece published in The Hill on Nov. 11.