Dynamic Boundaries for Nurses

Burnout Index

Annual losses the typical hospital absorbs to RN turnover: $4.2M–$6.2M¹

Average cost to a hospital when one bedside RN leaves: $60,090¹

Annual turnover rate among hospital staff RNs, 2025: 17.6%¹

Average time it now takes to fill one open position for an experienced RN: 78 days¹

Nurses who report feeling burned out most days: 58%²

Odds that a nursing-home RN with burnout leaves necessary care undone, compared with one without burnout: 5x³

Reduction in nursing faculty's average burnout score after a 6-week boundary-management intervention, 2025: 12%⁴

Number of studies categorized under boundary management, out of 131 in a 2024 umbrella review of individual burnout strategies for nurses: 0⁵

There is a Nursing Burnout Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Dynamic Boundary-training for Nurses

A leap in the right direction.

November 14, 2026; Seattle University
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Sources: 1. NSI Nursing Solutions, 2026 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report (2026). 2. AMN Healthcare, 2025 Survey of Registered Nurses (2025), 12,171 respondents. 3. White, E. M., Aiken, L. H., & McHugh, M. D. (2019). Registered nurse burnout, job dissatisfaction, and missed care in nursing homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(10), 2065–2071. 4. Waugh, J., Offner, B., & Haney, V. (2025). Using boundary management to decrease burnout in nursing faculty. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 20, e329–e335. 5. Hsu, H.-C., Lee, H.-F., Hung, H.-M., et al. (2024). Effectiveness of individual-based strategies to reduce nurse burnout: An umbrella review. Journal of Nursing Management, 2024, 8544725.

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