Following 10 days of negotiations and what the union is calling a "terrible staffing proposal," nurses at the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital are walking out today. Hospital management doubled down on staffing cuts to several units including labor and delivery, mother-baby, and chemotherapy infusion, the union says.
Washington state has been named the best state for nurses in a new study from WalletHub, a personal finance website that regularly conducts studies comparing states. WalletHub's report ranks all 50 states across 20 metrics to determine the best markets for nurses, just as nursing students across the country are graduating soon.
Close to a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession for another career due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey from AMN Healthcare shows.
Nearly one-third of nurses say they are likely to leave their career because of the COVID-19 pandemic, up 7 percentage points since 2021, according to a healthcare staffing company's survey of more than 18,000 RNs across the country.