Becker's Healthcare April 17, 2024
On average, registered nurses’ workweeks were 84 minutes longer in 2022 than in 2018, federal data shows.
The data comes from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, an annual poll conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration and U.S. Census Bureau. The latest version of the survey, released in March, includes responses from 49,234 registered nurses polled in 2022 and early 2023. HRSA also operates an interactive data dashboard that compares 2018 and 2022 survey responses in key areas, such as nursing demographics, employment and work hours.
Five notes:
1. In 2022, nurses worked an average of 38.9 hours weekly, up from 37.5 hours in 2018.
2. The median weekly...
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