Likelihood of nurses quitting due to the COVID-19 pandemic U.S. 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had tremendous repercussions on the well-being of healthcare workers, especially nurses. According to this survey conducted in 2023, a third of registered nurses in the United States stated it was likely they would leave nursing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distribution of registered nurses by likelihood of them leaving the field of nursing for another occupation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in 2023

Characteristic	Share of respondents
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-
-	-

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

May 2023

More information

Region

United States

Survey time period

January 2023

Number of respondents

18,226 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

The question was framed as "How likely are you to leave the field of nursing for another occupation as a result of the pandemic?"

The survey polled more than 800,000 Registered Nurses in the United States from Jan. 5 to Jan. 18, 2023, and received 18,226 completed questionnaires used in this report, of which 11,918 were from staff nurses with the remainder being travel nurses, per diem and other. The margin of error is 1% at a 99% confidence level, and the response rate is 2.5%.

Some percentages in the report may not total 100% due to rounding or to comparisons of independent samples.

Citation formats