Healthcare DIVE June 7, 2022
Dive Brief:
- Nurses changed professions or left their employers more frequently from March 2021 to March 2022, according to research from Epic analyzing turnover.
- The median length of time that nurses worked for their organizations dropped across the U.S. during that period, with the biggest declines occurring in the West, the study found.
- Shifts covered by “new nurses” — defined as those who started working for an organization within the last 30 days — rose in all regions, while the number of 12-hour shifts filled climbed 55.5%, it added.
Epic’s study, which pulled data from more than 26 million 12-hour nursing shifts across 189 healthcare organizations, found that nurse job shuffling picked up speed just over a year...