‘The New Nurse’ Is the New Normal
With COVID-19’s increased demands on healthcare workers, nursing staff shortages have been widespread1,2,3. We evaluated data from more than 26 million 12-hour nursing shifts across 189 U.S. healthcare organizations to determine how much nursing staff turnover healthcare organizations are experiencing. One measure of turnover is the median length of time nurses have been at their current organization. We found that from March 2021 to March 2022, median tenure dropped 19.5% across all U.S. regions, as shown in figure 1.
