Greener nurses enter field as workforce demand continues to spike
12/16/23 at 03:41 AM
Greener nurses enter field as workforce demand continues to spike
McKnight’s Home Care Daily
December 15, 2023
Job openings in healthcare and social services have risen sharply in the last several years, and healthcare providers are taking on less-experienced registered nurses to handle the pressure. At the beginning of 2018, the average nurse’s tenure was more than six years of experience, according to a recent workforce report by the ADP Research Institute. In the five years since, however, high turnover rates and a corresponding abundance of job opportunities deflated a nurse’s average tenure to about five years of experience.