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Nursing issues
Nurses who return to work in clinical practice require bespoke support and development
  1. David Barrett
  1. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor David Barrett, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK; david.i.barrett{at}york.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104105

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    Commentary on: Yamamoto K, Nasu K, Nakayoshi Y, et al. Sustaining the nursing workforce - exploring enabling and motivating factors for the retention of returning nurses: a qualitative descriptive design. BMC Nurs 2024;23:248.

    Implications for practice and research

    • The returning nurse workforce provides a valuable pool of experience, knowledge and skills.

    • Large-scale research is required into approaches that encourage nurses to return to the workforce and enable them to stay.

    Context

    Shortages in the nursing workforce impact on the quality of patient care and pose a complex challenge for governments and healthcare organisations across the globe. There are estimated to be approximately 29 million nurses worldwide as of 2020, with a shortage of approximately 7 million against required levels. Despite growth in the workforce over the coming years, the nursing shortage is still projected to be 4.5M by 2030.1

    One approach to addressing this shortage is to …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.