Workforce Thought Leadership: Data & Insights
Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Workforce Thought Leadership: Data & Insights
Through our Center for Workforce Research, AMN Healthcare, the nation’s leading healthcare workforce solutions company, produces a consistent series of surveys, reports and white papers examining healthcare workforce trends. The following are key data outputs, insights, and trends identified in recent AMN Healthcare research.
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Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Nurses and Nurse Leaders
AMN Healthcare Survey of Hospital Nurse Leaders A national survey of chief nursing officers, nurse directors and other nurse leaders, examining their strategic priorities, staffing challenges and career plans. Nurse recruitment and retention is the top challenge facing nurse leaders in 2024, followed by nurse burnout. 34%
73% of nurse leaders, sometimes, often or always experience feelings of burnout 29% of nurse leaders plan to leave their current positions in the coming year, and will seek new employment, leave nursing, leave nursing administration or retire
of nurse leaders have all of the financial resources needed to address current nurse workforce needs 33% have all the technical resources needed to do so
AMN Healthcare Nurses: A Brief Check-In A periodic “pulse” survey providing a read on nurse career plans and perspectives. 21% of nurses think 2024 will be better for nurses than 2023 37% believe it will be worse 35% plan to change their hours 16% plan to work as travelers The most important change nurses would like to see in their workplace in 2024 is: 78% higher compensation | 68% more nurses on the floor | 58% better schedules 35% of nurses plan to change jobs in 2024
Nurses in 2024 A Brief Check-in
AMN Healthcare Survey of Registered Nurses A national biennial survey of nurses examining their career plans, morale levels, and related topics. 33%
30% of nurses are likely to leave nursing due to the pandemic and related factors
CONSEQUENCES THE PANDEMIC'S
of nurses said they have the time needed to care for their patients, down from 43% the previous year
Survey of Registered Nurses
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Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Physicians & Advanced Practice Professionals
AMN Healthcare Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives An annual report tracking the starting salary offers, signing bonuses and other incentives used to recruit physicians and advanced practice professionals. Orthopedic surgeons are offered the highest starting salary among physicians at $686,000 . Pediatricians are offered the lowest at $244,000 .
2024 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives An Overview of the Salaries, Bonuses, and Other Incentives Customarily Used to Recruit Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and CRNAs
$31,473 average physician signing bonus
$11,284 average physician relocation allowance
AMN Healthcare Physician Billing Report Commercial billing data from physicians and advanced practice professionals across specialties, and AMN Healthcare 2024 Allied Healthcare Professional Revenue and ROI Report. Data showing real-world billing submitted by various types of allied healthcare professionals, less the cost of contingent labor. The highest average annual billing to commercial payors is generated by: General Surgeons $11,669,016 Orthopedic Surgeons $9,809,514 Critical Care/Intensivists $6,667,319 $777,993 average annual billing to commercial payors generated by nurse practitioners $2.48M average annual billing generated by cath lab technologists, the highest among allied radiology professionals $1.37M generated annually by Vascular technologists
2023 Physician Billing Report A Data-Driven Examination of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Billing and Projected Collections With Commercial Payors
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Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Physicians
AMN Healthcare Survey of Locum Tenens Physicians A biennial survey examining the practice patterns, job satisfaction levels, and demographics of physicians who work on a temporary/ locum tenens basis.
58,000 physicians work as locum tenens in a given year
45% of locum tenens physicians would return to a permanent position if compensation, schedules, and other working conditions were favorable
2024 Survey of Locum Tenens Physicians and Advanced Practitioners: Choosing an Alternative Practice Style in an Era of Provider Shortages and Burnout
The two primary reasons physicians choose to work locum tenens are: 1) to improve their working conditions, and 2) to address burnout.
AMN Healthcare Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates A periodic survey indicating the average time to schedule a physician appointment in 15 large metropolitan areas and the rate of Medicare and Medicaid acceptance among physicians in those areas.
Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates 2022
Average for Cardiology is up 26% since 2017. Average for ORS is up 48% since 2017.
The average wait time for all specialties is up 8% since 2017. Average for OBG is up 19% since 2017.
A survey examining the time needed to schedule a new patient physician appointment in 15 major metropolitan areas, as well as the rates of physician Medicare and Medicaid acceptance in these areas.
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Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Medical Residents & Public Schools
AMN Healthcare Survey of Final-Year Medical Residents A biennial survey tracking the practice plans and preferences of physicians in their final year of training. The majority of medical residents receive 100 more job solicitations from recruiters during the course of their training.
Survey of Final-Year Medical Residents: Many Job Choices, Many Reservations 2023
78% receive 51 more job solicitations
30% of physicians completing their training would choose a field other than medicine if they had it to do over
4% of newly trained physicians would prefer to work in a community of 100,000 people or fewer
AMN Healthcare Survey of Public School Healthcare Staffing Trends A survey examining health care professional staffing needs and employment patterns in public schools. 52%
83% of schools employ speech language pathologists, 78% employ nurses and 75% employ psychologists 73% use contingent professionals to fill their healthcare staffing needs
Survey of Public School Healthcare Staffing Trends 2023: Many Vacancies, Mounting Challenges
of K-12 school administrators indicate their schools are understaffed with healthcare professionals 29% said students at their schools do not have access to the healthcare they need
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Allied Healthcare Professionals
AMN Healthcare Survey of Allied Healthcare Professional New Graduate Hiring Patterns A survey tracking allied healthcare professional new graduate employment trends and practices at hospitals and other healthcare facilities. 85% of hospitals and other healthcare facilities are experiencing a shortage of allied healthcare professionals 82% have hired a new graduate allied healthcare professional in the last 12 months
Survey of Travel Allied Healthcare Professionals 2023 A Survey Examining the Characteristics, Perspectives and Practice Patterns of Allied Healthcare Professionals Who Work Temporary/Travel Assignments
38% have hired a new graduate radiology technologist 36% have hired a new graduate physical therapist, and 31% have hired a new graduate laboratory technologist
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Key Thought Leadership Data Points and Metrics
Healthcare Language Interpretation
AMN Healthcare World Language Index Data revealing languages other than English used in patient/ provider healthcare encounters nationally and by state. Spanish is the most common language other than English used in patient/ provider healthcare encounters. Spanish is employed in 73% of non-English healthcare encounters. Chinese languages ( Mandarin and Cantonese ) are second and are used in 4.4% of non-English healthcare encounters. Vietnamese and Arabic are tied for third and are each used in 3.3% of non-English healthcare encounters.
2023 HEALTHCARE WORLD LANGUAGE INDEX
A National and State-by-State Listing of the Most Frequently Spoken Languages Other Than English in Hospital, Medical Group, and Community Health Center-Based Patient Encounters
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