Category: Nursing

Three 12-hour shifts a week has long been considered the standard schedule for hospital nurses. However, many nurses can recall times they’ve worked far beyond 12 hours due to staffing pressures at their facility. 

Hospitals must ensure they are offering competitive nonsalary forms of compensation to help recruit and retain nurse leaders, according to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.

Nationally, 32.8 percent of first-year nurses leave hospitals within a year of employment, according to 2023 data from NSI Nursing Solutions. At an Advocate hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., that rate is about 10 percent.

Nurses at the Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas, announced they will rally Sept. 27 out of mounting concerns over the safety of newborn and open-heart surgery patients.

More hospitals and health systems across the country are implementing nurse residency programs to support new nurses as they transition into the field. It’s also an effort that aims to improve retention amid the ongoing nursing shortage.

The “secret sauce” to creating a great work culture is having nurse leaders who embrace a primary role as retention officers and putting values into action, nursing leaders told Becker’s.

National Nurses United’s recent scrutiny over the CDC’s proposed masking standards in hospitals is the latest example of the two entities not seeing eye to eye on infection control.

Between January 2022 and July 2023, nurses in Massachusetts filed 12,600 unsafe staffing reports, according to a Sept. 18 news release from the state’s nursing association. 

CareRev has promoted Susan Pasley, BSN, RN, to the role of chief nursing officer, the gig-work tech platform said Sept. 14. 

Months after the closure of Stone Academy, a for-profit healthcare college in West Haven, Conn., former nursing students who were unable to finish their education are coming forward, suing the school for $10.35 million, Law360 reported Sept. 12.