Patient Safety | 09.21.22
Nurses Remain Passionate Despite Historical Issues in Need of Reform
by Cross County Healthcare Inc.
Nurses remain passionate about patient care – citing helping people through meaningful work (66 percent) – but highlighted areas of dissatisfaction and ongoing industry challenges, including compensation (86 percent), staff shortages (53 percent), stress (39 percent), and burnout (35 percent), according to a survey of 1,780 nursing professionals and students at health care facilities and hospitals by Cross Country Healthcare Inc. Nearly one-third (28 percent) of nurses said their desire to leave the profession had increased dramatically since the pandemic, while those who said their desire to stay had increased since the pandemic dropped to 4 percent from 24 percent last year. Twenty-three percent of nurses polled said they plan to look for a new career in one to two years and 13 percent plan to retire in one to five years.
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