Since 2012, Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has retained 93.8 percent of its first-year nurses, and its nurse turnover rate is hree times better than the national rate. 

Three 12-hour shifts a week has long been considered the standard schedule for hospital nurses. However, many nurses can recall times they've worked far beyond 12 hours due to staffing pressures at their facility. 

Hospitals must ensure they are offering competitive nonsalary forms of compensation to help recruit and retain nurse leaders, according to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.

Nationally, the turnover rate for hospital nurses is 22.5 percent, according to 2023 data from NSI Nursing Solutions. At an Advocate hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., that rate is about 10 percent.

Nurses at the Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas, rallied Sept. 27 out of mounting concerns over the safety of newborn and open-heart surgery patients.

More hospitals and health systems across the country are implementing nurse residency programs to support new nurses as they transition into the field. It's also an effort that aims to improve retention amid the ongoing nursing shortage.

The "secret sauce" to creating a great work culture is having nurse leaders who embrace a primary role as retention officers and putting values into action, nursing leaders told Becker's.

Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would address the pay gap between clinical and faculty nursing positions in order to reduce the nursing shortage.

The nursing profession has a role to play in mitigating the effects of climate change through patient education, nursing education and research, according to a new position statement from the American Nurses Association. 

The national nursing shortage is prompting some states to tap family members to provide home-based care for children with complex health needs.

Atlanta-based Emory University's School of Nursing has announced a partnership with the Georgia Nursing Leadership Coalition to address the nursing shortage across the state. 

California has a significant edge when it comes to combating the nursing shortage. The state saw about 30,000 more registered nurses move in than out during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a Sept. 19 Los Angeles Times report. 

National Nurses United's recent scrutiny over the CDC's proposed masking standards in hospitals is the latest example of the two entities not seeing eye to eye on infection control.

Between January 2022 and July 2023, nurses in Massachusetts filed 12,600 unsafe staffing reports, according to a Sept. 18 news release from the state's nursing association. 

CareRev has promoted Susan Pasley, BSN, RN, to the role of chief nursing officer, the gig-work tech platform said Sept. 14. 

Months after the closure of Stone Academy, a for-profit healthcare college in West Haven, Conn., former nursing students who were unable to finish their education are coming forward, suing the school for $10.35 million, Law360 reported Sept. 12.

About 130 Michigan hospital leaders gathered to lobby against legislation that would require hospitals to meet nurse-patient staffing ratios, limit mandatory nurse overtime and require transparency about staffing, the Detroit Free Press reported Sept. 14.

Sandra Lindsay, RN, made history as the first American vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2020. Now, she's among the first to get the new booster, ABC affiliate WABC-TV reported Sept. 13.

New nurses are an "untapped" resource for home care, according to Danielle Flynn, MSN, the director of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine Home Health.

Four-time Magnet-certified El Camino Health in Mountain View and Los Gatos, Calif., has achieved a turnover rate of just 8 percent for its nurses, even in the midst of a nationwide nurse shortage, according to Cheryl Reinking, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer at El Camino Health.