A Focus Group Study of Retirement-Age Nurses: Balancing Tension and a Love of Nursing in a Changing Healthcare Environment.

Objective: The aims of this study were to explore the experience of retirement-age nurses and identify decision-making factors and innovations to enhance retention.

Background: A national shortage of nurses has created challenges to preserving quality patient care and level of nursing competency and managing turnover costs.

Methods: A qualitative study using focus groups was conducted of nurses 55 years or older who were working or recently retired.

Nurses' Knowledge of Heart Failure: Implications for Decreasing 30-Day Re-Admission Rates.

Heart failure affects 5.1 million Americans. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in older adults and the most common cause of readmissions, which cost approximately $12 billion annually.