This section covers the nursing workforce in the United States — shortages, compensation, staffing policy, the travel nursing market and the pipeline of new nurses entering the profession. Reporting takes in both the labor market and the patient care implications of nursing workforce conditions.
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Hospital and health system nursing compensation decisions, state staffing ratio legislation and its implementation, travel nurse agency rate trends, nursing school enrollment figures and the workforce projections that frame how the shortage is expected to evolve are the recurring subjects here. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix are home to large hospital systems whose nursing workforce decisions and contract negotiations generate national coverage because of the scale of the institutions and the number of nurses involved. Burnout and retention have become as prominent in nursing workforce coverage as recruitment, since the factors driving experienced nurses out of bedside roles have proven as consequential for staffing gaps as the pipeline of new graduates. State staffing ratio legislation has generated concentrated legislative coverage in the states where it has moved, since the policy directly affects hospital operations, labor costs and the negotiating position of nursing unions simultaneously.
