(St. Paul, MN) -- A new national study from the University of Illinois shows that 51-percent of surveyed nurses considered leaving the profession within the next year. Mary Turner with the Minnesota Nurses Association (M-N-A) calls the results “extremely alarming.” She says short staffing and moral distress are among the top reasons given for nurses wanting to leave. The study of 22-hundred registered nurses working in hospitals, conducted last fall, found 95 percent had experienced moral distress -- largely due to the pandemic. Only 15 percent of nurses surveyed felt staffing levels in their workplace were safe.
Study shows 51 percent of nurses consider changing jobs in the next year
