Becker's Healthcare January 4, 2022
Nurse employment remained low while wages increased during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting a tightening labor market in which demand outpaced supply, according to a study published Jan. 4 in Health Affairs.
To determine how the healthcare workforce has been affected by the pandemic, Peter Buerhaus, PhD, BSN, of Montana State University and co-authors examined aggregate data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for February 2020 through June 2021. Researchers also examined monthly data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey between January 2011 and June 2021 to determine how overall healthcare employment trends have affected nurses.
Five findings:
1. There were unprecedented declines in healthcare employment in the early months of the pandemic, according to...
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