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To access the content, check your email and follow the instructions provided. Having trouble? Click here. FIRST ON FOX: With nearly two-thirds of nurses in the United States experiencing burnout — including 69% of those under 25 years of age, according to the American Nurses Association — many in the industry are calling for change.
A recent survey by AMN Healthcare, a health care workforce solutions company based in Texas, found that most nurses aren’t optimistic about improvements, with 80% saying they think the year 2024 will be either "no better or worse" than last year and 38% of nurses expecting it to be worse. "The concerns that many nurses have about their profession were not created by COVID-19 and have not gone away now that the crisis has passed," Robin Johnson, group president of nursing solutions at AMN Healthcare, who administered the survey, told Fox News Digital. NURSES CALL FOR CHANGE AS MANY REVEAL THEY'RE ‘EXTREMELY LIKELY’ TO LEAVE PROFESSION: ‘EMOTIONAL, STRESSFUL' "Many nurses still feel overworked and undercompensated," she said.
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