Hospitals largely left out as nursing workforce fully recovers from COVID

HealthExec February 19, 2024
Dave Pearson

At its height, the COVID-19 pandemic displaced more than 10,000 RNs from their jobs. Three years later, the workforce is back and growing strong, according to a study published Feb. 16 in JAMA Health Forum.

In fact, the authors remark, future staffing challenges involving nurses probably won’t include an “overall shortage,” as sometimes seemed a given during the pandemic, and competition for RNs across healthcare sectors “will likely remain robust.”

However, nurses are increasingly choosing to work in non-hospital settings.

David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and colleagues made the findings and conclusions upon analyzing RN employment data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

To contextualize trends leading up to the pandemic, they used historic data dating from...

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