MedCity News September 15, 2024
A new Mercer report predicts there will be a national surplus of about 30,000 nurses by 2028. Though an overall surplus is projected nationally, there will still be significant shortages of nursing labor in a handful of states, as well as most of the country’s rural areas. To solve this issue, providers need to recruit from wider labor pools, minimize nurses’ nonclinical tasks and prioritize creating a more supportive work environment.
During the early phases of the pandemic, nurses were quitting their jobs in droves, prompting major concerns about the future of the workforce as well as the healthcare industry’s reliance on agency labor.
But things are different now — new data from Mercer shows that there will be a...
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