Fierce Healthcare December 3, 2021
Dave Muoio

A new survey of nurses and nursing students underscores growing burnout across the clinical workforce and the impact COVID-19 could have on front-line healthcare workers’ willingness to stay in the field for the long run.

Across 571 respondents polled in spring 2021, about two-thirds of nurses and nursing students shared some degree of interest in leaving the profession.

Further, 52% of respondents said they were either very or completely satisfied with their career prior to the pandemic’s onset. As of the spring, that number dwindled to 32% with the youngest respondents, millennials, falling even lower to 22%.

The results of the survey—which was conducted by healthcare staffing and advisory firm Cross Country Healthcare and Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn...

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