April 23, 2024- The amount of registered nurses who reported being “extremely satisfied” with their jobs decreased 12 percentage points between 2018 and 2022, according to Becker’s Hospital Review and federal data. The data, from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, is an annual poll conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration and U.S. Census Bureau.
The latest version of the survey, released in March, includes responses from 49,234 registered nurses polled in 2022 and early 2023. The data exemplifies that there has been a significant decrease in in job satisfaction among licensed and employed nurses across all practice types. In 2022, 28% of nurses were extremely satisfied with work, down from 40% in 2018.