The Nursing Labor Market ’s Structural Shift

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, stock analysts reported that weekly pay for temporary nurses had dropped another 15% to the low $3,000s, helping to improve the bottom line at investor-owned hospital groups.1 While travel nurse contracts and wages have been decreasing concurrently with pandemic-related hospital admissions, many wonder when (if ever) the registered nurses (RNs) who for the first time in their career decided (for a myriad of reasons) to travel to pandemic hot spots will return to permanent positions.
Source: Nurse Leader - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: The Career Coaching Corner Source Type: research