Fewer people are enrolling in RN-to-BSN programs. Here’s what that means for the future of nursing. A young female dressed in blue scrubs sitting in the classroom holding a notebook looking forward.

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Stressful working conditions and workforce shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to burnout among nurses, so much so that about 100,000 registered nurses left the industry, according to ...

Health systems are taking on what one leader has called the “next major workforce crisis”: a shortage of nurse educators. In 2024, U.S. nursing schools turned away 80,162 qualified applications.