California now leads the country in the nursing shortage with an estimated 45,000 deficit within the next five years.(1) The impact of the shortage on care quality cannot be underestimated. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, there is a direct correlation between mortality and below-target staffing and high-turnover shifts. Increasing the number of RNs […]
Flipping the script on nurse recruiting
Getting Ahead of the Nursing Shortage Through Innovation and Technology There are approximately three million nurses in the U.S., 700,000 of which are projected to retire or leave the workforce within the next six years. Filling these vacancies will require more than one million new registered nurses.(1) Even today, nearly 200,000 nursing positions sit unfilled […]
