As staff issues worsened, more hospitals came up with creative solutions to retaining and rehiring staff. They worked on creating more welcoming environments and invested more in technologies that would help ease the shortage.
The first half of 2023 also saw more conversations about minorities and generational gaps and the breaking of the degree fraud scheme.
Here are the nursing trends that emerged between January and June:
Staffing issues
- Meet the nurse hospitals won’t hire
- The ‘hard truth’ about staffing shortages: They aren’t going away
- When hospitals stick nurses with $15K in training costs
- Band-Aid solutions won’t bring nurses back to the bedside, Duke Health’s Dr. Richard Shannon says
- ‘Crisis’ looms as 800,000 more nurses plan to exit workforce by 2027: study
- US pauses nurse green card applications
- 85% of nurses plan to leave hospital roles 1 year from now: Survey
- Nurse viewpoint: Mandatory staffing ratios are the wrong fight
Nurses retention and rehiring
- Nurses stream back to hospitals amid temp job slump
- How Henry Ford rehired 25% of nurses who left during the pandemic
- Why nurses are signing ‘unresignation’ letters
- Northwell’s nurse turnover rate is nearly half the national average: Chief nurse Maureen White on how they did it
- Nurses aren’t ‘quiet quitters,’ 2 leaders say
- Ohio rural hospital removes BSN requirement for new nurses
- 3 things health systems can do to ease the nursing crisis, per top nurse execs
- The unexpected benefit Erlanger saw after raising nurse pay
Hospitals giving more flexibility and authority to nurses
- 5 ways hospitals are giving nurses more flexibility
- How 5 CNOs elevate nurses’ voices in decision-making
- How nurse ‘change agents’ saved hospitals $84M
Sharing knowledge across the table
- Listen up, experienced nurses: New nurses have a few things to tell you
- What nurses of color want white nurses to know
- ‘Invest in the best shoes you can’: What experienced nurses want newer peers to know
- Do nurses of color feel excluded in hospitals? ‘Yes. Every. Single. Day.’
- Is being male an advantage or disadvantage in nursing? 27 men weigh in
- How to get more men into nursing, per 21 male nurses
Technology and nursing
- Nurses vs. AI: What happens when nurses disagree with the AI’s assessment
- From ‘game-changer’ to ‘we all lose’: 9 nurse leaders weigh in on virtual nursing
Nurse fake degree scheme
- How did 2,800 nurses with fake degrees pass the NCLEX?
- Texas board charges 23 nurses in fake degree scheme as other students speak out
- States take action against nurses tied to degree scheme
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