18 Percent Of Nurses Leave First Job Within A Year, 33 Percent Within Two Years

Like most young people, the first job is not the best job and they will often leave when a better opportunity comes along.  There is strong demand for nurses so it's no surprise that there is turnover among young ones. Once they prove they can do the job, hospitals and practices are going to recruit them and pay higher salaries, because they are not paying training costs. A study in the current issue of Policy, Politics&Nursing Practice reveals that an estimated 17.5 percent of newly-licensed RNs leave their first nursing job within the first year and one in three (33.5%) leave within two years. The scholars found that turnover for this group is lower at hospitals than at other health care settings. read more

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