McKnight's May 2, 2023
Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings. Maybe it’s less that “nobody wants to work” and more “nobody wants to work in bad conditions for low wages.”
The shortage of nurses goes back decades, but COVID-19 pushed it to a crisis. Over 50% of the nurses currently working are over 50; expect early retirements as the workload and expectations increase. The shortage is not expected to lighten up any time soon. In 2021, in the middle of a global pandemic, nursing schools in the US turned away over 91,000 applicants due to a lack of...
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