Nursing job turnover has nearly doubled since the pandemic

MedicalXpress | Jun 11, 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic did not push nurses out of hospitals or other care settings as feared, but nurses left their primary jobs at nearly double the rate from 2018 to 2022, finds a University of Michigan study. The study, which appeared in Medical Care, also found that the size of the nursing workforce grew from 3.27 million to 3.57 million during the same period.