ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — About 100,000 nurses nationwide have left the workforce over the past two years due to stress, burnout and retirement.
Some healthcare organizations are offering sizeable sign-on bonuses to new nurses and retention bonuses to current staff.
The president of the Saint Anthony College of Nursing says another approach is to entice more students to enter the profession.
“We have more and more calls and inquiries about coming to our colleges. The enrollment is on the way up, because people are understanding that a nursing career is a solid career,” said President of OSF College of Nursing, Dr. Charlene Aaron. “They will always have a job and are learning more and more about the variety of how they can spend their career in nursing.”
OSF currently has plans to create a new program that would take nursing staff and students into area high schools to introduce teens to potential nursing careers.
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