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The AMN Healthcare 2021 Survey of Registered Nurses illustrates the pandemic’s impact on the mental health and wellbeing of nurses, highlights trends of nurses seeking advanced education and training, and provides unique viewpoints on diversity, equality, and inclusion in the nursing environment.

For years, healthcare experts have been talking about a pending wave of retirements of baby boomer nurses.

At last month’s AONE meeting in Boston, there was a lot of discussion about the Institute of Medicine’s call for 80 percent BSN-prepared nurses by 2020 (from their 2010 “Future of Nursing” report), and one of the concurrent sessions took a closer look at this imperative.

Survey results revealed the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses’ mental health and how AMN Healthcare is providing care for nurses’ wellbeing.

Although the shortage of clinicians continues to worsen, healthcare providers are still reluctant to hire novice nurses and early career nurses with under two years’ experience.

Want to mitigate nurse shortages? Be more proactive and prepared with healthcare staffing strategies from the experts at AMN Healthcare.

With the election year in full swing, we are constantly being bombarded with news about presidential hopefuls and their campaigns, and how the momentum keeps shifting based on individual state primaries.

This survey, Worsening Shortages and Growing Consequences: CNO Survey on Nurse Supply and Demand, measures the views of Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) and other nurse leaders on the magnitude and impact of the shortages.