“Predicted Retirement Wave of Baby-Boomer Nurses Has Hit, AMN Healthcare Survey Shows,” PRNewswire

“The long-predicted wave of retirements among Baby-Boomer nurses is already underway, new data suggests from the 2017 AMN Healthcare Survey of Registered Nurses released today. This news intensifies the growing crisis of healthcare workforce shortages, forewarned by recent projections from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics that there will be more than 600,000 job openings per year for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations over the next decade. ”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

A downside of anguishing over the oncoming age wave for 30 years is that we became jaded and now that it’s about to happen, we’re like the boy who called wolf.

Predicted Retirement Wave of Baby-Boomer Nurses Has Hit, AMN Healthcare Survey Shows

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