According to this 2023 survey, the majority of registered nurses often felt like resigning. Indeed, that year, 55 percent of surveyed registered nurses agreed with the statement "I often feel like resigning", of which 29 percent strongly agreed. Only 16 percent of responding nurses disagreed strongly with often having the wish to quit.
Share of registered nurses who often felt like resigning in the United States in 2023
Full wording of the category for this statistic was :
"I often feel like resigning" (n=17,851)
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%.
Percentages in the report may not total 100% due to
rounding or to comparisons of independent samples.
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Merritt Hawkins. (May 1, 2023). Share of registered nurses who often felt like resigning in the United States in 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 06, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1389781/nurses-feeling-resign-united-states/
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Merritt Hawkins. (2023). Share of registered nurses who often felt like resigning in the United States in 2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 06, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1389781/nurses-feeling-resign-united-states/
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