Nursing Retirements Have Critical Implications - Blogs - Nurse.Com Forums, terri_g:"An article in the today’s Washington Post, written by Darryl Fears, states, “Health-care economists and other experts say retirements in that group [nurses] over the next 10 to 15 years will greatly weaken the health-care workforce...” I am glad to see more attention being paid to the implications of losing our most experienced nurses.
Several years ago, I heard David DeLong, an expert on the aging workforce; speak about the notion of lost knowledge. He remarked that as highly experienced workers retire, companies lose critical information that resides deep within their minds. This concept resonated with me and I set out to learn how it applied to the aging nursing workforce."
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Don't know about you, but I know a lotta nurses who are looking to retire as soon as the economy turns around. It isn't that far away.

How are we going to fare once we've lost our most experienced nurses?

Andrew Lopez, RN
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