The latest study on the nursing staffing crisis in Michigan is not the result of the pandemic, but rather working conditions.
Those details are coming from a study out of the University of Michigan that shows 1 in 4 nurses across the state have plans to quit soon.
The U-M School of Nursing study surveyed all registered nurses in the state in 2022. The study found that 39% of those questioned say they plan to leave their jobs in the next year.
Nursing professor Christopher Friese published his findingsin the journal of Medical Care.
<i>"What’s really troubling is that the rates were highest among our youngest nurses, which suggest that producing more nurses alone will not solve this crisis."</i><br/>
He says the findings show nurses are leaving because of unsafe working conditions and chronic understaffing that predated the pandemic.
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