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Background: The enrolled nurse is the second-level regulated nursing role in Australia and internationally. Reports and research indicate that the nursing profession requires greater understanding of the role, so it can be utilised to its potential. Aim: To explore issues that may impact the EN role in the Australian nursing workforce. Design: An integrative review. Methods: A seven-step framework was used to review scholarly papers, government documents, and grey literature. Results: Three themes from 24 documents were identified: understanding the EN's scope of practice, standardised pr...

Connecticut’s healthcare workforce shortage — especially in nursing — remains in a crisis stage due to a variety of factors, including the lasting effects of working during the pandemic, nurses aging into retirement, compensation issues, and a shortage of college faculty to train the next generation. The latest example of how bad the situation has become: Stafford’s Johnson Memorial Hospital announced in mid-June that it had to temporarily halt inpatient and outpatient surgeries due to a staffing shortage.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the state’s public health, law, and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service.

Nursing schools across Connecticut are trying to address the growing demand for nurses in the state.

Connecticut needs 3,000 new nurses a year and only 2,000 graduate — and many of them are leaving.