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Travel Nurses As A Sustainable Solution To The Nurse Staff Retention Crisis

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in the Washington Post: Last year, the American Nurses Foundation and the American Nurses Association reported the results of its Covid-19 Impact Assessment Survey, which found 52% of nurses were considering leaving their jobs due to insufficient staffing, a negative impact on their personal health and well-being, and an inability for them to deliver quality care. In addition, “60% of acute care nurses report feeling burned out, and 75% report feeling stressed, frustrated, and exhausted.”

Why are nurses quitting? Ask the nurse no hospital will hire.

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in the Washington Post: Before the pandemic, between a third and half of nurses and physicians already reported symptoms of burnout. A covid impact study published in March 2022 by the American Nurses Foundation found this number had risen to 60 percent among acute-care nurses. “Reports of feeling betrayed, undervalued, and unsupported have risen,” the ANF study said.

Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

The American Nurses Foundation’s Three-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in The New York Times: In a study from the American Nurses Foundation, released last month, 57 percent of 12,581 surveyed nurses said they had felt “exhausted” over the past two weeks, and 43 percent said they felt “burned out.” Just 20 percent said they felt valued. (Those numbers were largely consistent throughout the pandemic.)

Nurses feel unprepared for future pandemics, unsupported by employers, survey finds

The American Nurses Foundation’s Three-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in Becker’s: As the profession continues to face a national shortage, nearly one-third of younger nurses suffering emotional distress because of their jobs could be cause for additional concern related to attracting more individuals to the field.

Nurses’ Strike Ends in New York City After Hospitals Agree to Add Nurses

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in The New York Times: In March 2022, the American Nurses Foundation and the American Nurses Association released the results of their Covid-19 Two-Year Impact Assessment Survey, which found that 52 percent of nurses were considering leaving their current positions due primarily to insufficient staffing.

Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct featured in TIME: The problem appears to be national, and perhaps getting worse: A survey by the American Nurses Foundation conducted in January 2022 found that 52% of nurses polled nationwide said they were considering leaving the profession, up from 40% from a survey conducted in 2021.

AONL Foundation appoints four board members

The AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education appointed four individuals and reappointed four members. Christi Nguyen, DNP, RN, associate CNO of nurse excellence, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas; David Marshall, DNP, RN, senior vice president and CNO at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles; Marie (Jay) Maningo-Salinas, PhD, RN, vice chair, research administration, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; and Hunter Joslin, MA, chief executive officer, Joslin Insight, Richmond, Va., are beginning three-year terms.

Models of Care Insight Study

The study was born when Quint Studer met with leaders at Orlando Health. Like many organizations, they are piloting new and better ways to provide inpatient care. This discussion led to more discussions with healthcare leaders across the country on how they are reimagining care delivery models. These discussions, along with Quint’s conversations with ANA’s Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, prompted his new company, Healthcare Plus Solutions Group, to fund a study on new and alternative models of care.

Why nurses are desperate for change

The American Nurses Foundation survey that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced in the Hartford Courant: A survey published in March 2022 by the American Nurses Foundation found that 89% of nurses report that their organization is understaffed, 52% said it was a serious problem and 40% said it was a moderate problem.

To attract more people to nursing, we must change the conversation

The American Nurses Foundation survey that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced in the Tennessean: According to a recent survey by the American Nurses Foundation, 89% of nurses say their organization is experiencing a staffing shortage and less than half of nurses (48%) say they intend to stay in their positions over the next six months. Nurses cite insufficient staffing as their primary reason for leaving, and younger nurses are driving the exodus. 

A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced by Bloomberg: So many quit their jobs during the pandemic that in a recent survey of about 12,000 nurses by the American Nurses Foundation, 89 percent said their workplace is still chronically understaffed.

Covid-19 is taking a terrible toll on nurses. They deserve much more help.

The American Nurses Foundation survey on mental health and wellness that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced in the Washington Post: Covid-19 can be a nightmare, especially if it becomes severe and requires hospitalization. But imagine the agony of seeing this nightmare over and over again, every day. Such is the intense stress on acute-care nurses, those in hospitals at front lines of the pandemic, and it is taking a terrible toll.

Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19. Are They ‘Exploiting’ the Pandemic?

The American Nurses Foundation survey on mental health and wellness that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced in TIME: A study released in October by the American Nurses Foundation reports 21% of nurses nationwide said they planned to resign from their jobs within the next six months. Another 29% said they were considering leaving.

10 things Gen Z, millennial nurses want from their hospitals

A survey released March 1 from the American Nurses Foundation and Joslin Insight showed Generation Z and millennial nurses — who belong to the generations born between 1981 and 2012 — have been hit hard by the pandemic, with many suffering from mental health issues and about 60 percent saying they will leave or are considering leaving their positions.

What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing

An American Nurses Foundation survey that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced in the Atlantic: In a survey of nearly 12,000 nurses, 89 percent said that their workplace was short-staffed, and half said the problem was serious. Worse, almost a quarter said that they were planning on leaving their jobs within the next six months, and another 30 percent said they might.

Addressing Health Worker Burnout: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce

The American Nurses Foundation’s Two-Year Impact Assessment that Joslin Insight helped conduct referenced by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce. 

New Survey Findings: Patients Lack Access to Appropriate Number of Nursing and Ancillary Staff

The American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) released the findings of a new comprehensive survey of more than 11,800 nurses nationwide on workplace culture and safety as part of the Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series. This data reveals nurses are sounding the alarm that quality care is at risk and concerns are high over a healthy and safe work environment.

AONL to honor nursing leaders, others for contributions to field

Early in 2020, Joslin Insight partnered with AONL to study the pandemic’s impact on nurse leaders. Their study was the first to identify the emotional toll and need for a national effort to support nurse leaders. Their research evolved into a yearlong, three-part longitudinal study revealing challenges on staffing shortages and nurse leader well-being, and garnering attention across the country.

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