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The State of the Nursing Workforce in 2024

Daily Nurse

Our nation’s health workers face a mental health crisis, as spotlighted in a CDC Vital Signs report in October 2023. The survey found that 46% of nurses had experienced clinical depression in the last 12 months, with only 29% actually booking a visit with a mental health professional.

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

She became invaluable as a resource for new women booked into the jail with similar pasts. “I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. ” Opportunities to widen and deepen my empathy presented themselves during my time as a corrections nurse at the jail.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. I imagine that can present a pretty big obstacle to keeping care staff invested in their jobs.