90% of Nurses Considering Leaving the Profession in the Next Year
April 27th, 2022Via: HealthcareITNews:
Nurses are thinking about leaving, and the pandemic isn’t solely to blame. Ninety percent of respondents are considering leaving the nursing profession in the next year, with 71% of nurses that have more than 15 years of nursing experience thinking about leaving as soon as possible or within the next few months. Seventy-two percent of respondents said they were experiencing nurse burnout long before the pandemic.
As staff shortages increase, so do the workloads of active nurses.
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High patient-to-nurse staffing ratios and the resulting impacts.
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Access to care is dropping for patients.
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Administrative burden and manual tasks are among key drivers of nurse burnout.
