What’s been happening in the nursing workforceįrom September 9 to 30, 2022, McKinsey surveyed 368 frontline nurses providing direct patient care in the United States to better understand their experiences, needs, preferences, and career intentions. We offer these insights as resources for organizations as they continue their journeys of attracting, supporting, and retaining a vibrant workforce, as well as promoting longer-term workforce stability. In this article, we share the latest data from our September 2022 frontline nursing survey of 368 frontline nurses providing direct patient care in the United States (see sidebar, “About the research”). That said, we are cautiously optimistic that some of the practices implemented by healthcare organizations to improve the experience of nurses are bearing fruit.

And there is still cause for concern: today, 31 percent of nurses still say they may leave their current direct patient care jobs in the next year, according to our most recent survey. In fact, we have seen some of this reported anticipated turnover actually occur, as well as a decrease in the overall active nursing workforce. This article is a collaborative effort by Gretchen Berlin, Faith Burns, Connor Essick, Meredith Lapointe, and Mhoire Murphy, representing views from McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice.īut that is what has happened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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