Advisory Board January 14, 2022

Nurse employment has dropped since the Covid-19 pandemic began, according to a study published in Health Affairs—but nurse salaries have risen.

The study’s authors say these changes could have long-lasting impacts on the industry, Shannon Firth reports for MedPage Today.

Employment declines amid rising salaries

For the study, researchers used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to compare the pre-pandemic period of October 2018 through December 2019 with the period after the pandemic began, stretching from April 2020 through June 2021.

The study found that nurse employment dropped overall during the pandemic, with nurse assistants seeing a 10% drop in employment, licensed practical nurses seeing a 20% drop, and RNs seeing a 1% drop.

Although the decline in...

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