Column
Stop calling it a nursing shortage. It's a retention problem.
The pipeline isn't empty — the back door is wide open. A charge nurse makes the case for fixing what we have.
Opinion & Editorial
Columns, debates, and letters from nurses, leaders, and the RN News Desk editorial board.
Column
Stop calling it a nursing shortage. It's a retention problem.
The pipeline isn't empty — the back door is wide open. A charge nurse makes the case.
Debate
Should AI scribes be allowed at the bedside? Two nurses disagree.
One sees relief from documentation; the other sees a liability waiting to happen.
Column
The orientation we give new grads is setting them up to leave
Twelve weeks can't undo a culture that eats its young.
Letters
Readers respond: what 'flexibility' really means on a short-staffed unit
Your replies to last week's piece on self-scheduling.
Column
Travel nursing gave me freedom. It also nearly broke me.
The honest ledger of three years on assignment.
Debate
Mandatory ratios: safety floor or staffing trap?
The argument for and against, without the slogans.
Column
Charting is patient care now — so why isn't it counted that way?
Time at the keyboard is invisible in every staffing model I've seen.
Column
I left the bedside for informatics. Here's what I'd tell my younger self.
A second act that started with one EHR complaint.