Healthcare Leaders Must Focus on Safety to Stabilize their Workforce
The connection between workplace violence and patient care is often overlooked, but the truth is that workplace safety directly impacts patient care.
What Happened to the Nursing Workforce?
Today, workforce growth and development are still the greatest challenges facing nurse leaders everywhere, and the old strategies are no longer working. Even though many are working on creative fixes, health systems are still in dire need of solutions that improve both recruitment and retention.
CMO Exchange: How to Address Healthcare Worker Burnout
Healthcare worker burnout was widespread before the coronavirus pandemic and spiked during the public health emergency. A study found that from September 2019 to January 2022, overall emotional exhaustion among healthcare workers increased from 31.8% of staff members to 40.4%.
Nursing Needs a Reality Check: Changing Expectations
According to the American Nurses Association, almost 18% of newly licensed registered nurses quit their jobs within the first year. A 2024 study found that new graduate RNs are leaving for a multitude of reasons, including their age, health status, supervisor and peer support, job demands, job competence, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and work environment.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 113 – Addressing Workforce Hurdles and Improving Patient Care
On episode 113 of PSQH: The Podcast, Michael Charlton, CEO of AtlantiCare, and Helene Burns, Chief Nurse Executive at AtlantiCare, talk about how addressing workforce hurdles can improve patient care.
Reducing Workplace Violence for Nurses
According to the Emergency Nurses Association, seven out of 10 emergency room nurses report being kicked or hit on the job, and one in four nurses in general report having experienced workplace violence involving a patient—and that such violence is underreported.
Mental Health Matters: How CNOs Can Help Prevent Nurse Suicides
Nurses face new challenges, including high stress emergency situations, workplace violence incidents, and death, on a daily basis with patients and families. All of those events can take a major toll on a nurse’s mental health, which can lead to more serious problems.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 112 – Improving Staff Retention in Healthcare
On episode 112 of PSQH: The Podcast, Heidi Raines, founder of Performance Health Partners, talks about how to improve staff retention in healthcare.
Texas’ New Healthcare Workplace Violence Law: What It Requires
As violence against healthcare workers occurs with greater frequency than in any other industry, the state of Texas is requiring healthcare facilities to adopt workplace violence prevention plans by September 1, 2024.
How to Build a Program to Promote Physician Well-Being
The best physician well-being programs begin by measuring burnout and well-being, then selecting an appropriate strategy, the chief wellness officer of Allegheny Health Network says.