Nurse-First Strategies to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Strain
With patient volumes ever on the rise and staffing shortages not going away any time soon, emergency departments and other departments and teams face relentless challenges. Areas like nurse-first triage and transfer strategies can help alleviate some of these challenges, build better operational efficiency, and open the door for more innovation.
How Hospital CEOs Are Reimagining Workforce Strategies
In the face of ongoing workforce shortages and rising labor costs, hospital CEOs are revamping their approach to designing and building teams. Whether it’s investing in education partnerships, strengthening nurse residencies, or responding to the evolving needs of younger generations, hospital leaders are thinking creatively about workforce sustainability.
Retention Through Education: Improving the Nurse Training Journey
Using a combination of real-life clinical site experience and simulation-based technology can help both the student and the faculty analyze the results of the teaching to identify gaps for further training.
What Does the Nursing Shortage Look Like Worldwide?
The World Health Organization’s State of the world’s nursing 2025 report states that progress in closing workforce gaps has slowed, despite the number of healthcare workers increasing steadily over the last 10 years.
At Sanford Health, Virtual Nursing is an Audio-Visual Experience
Virtual nursing programs have seen early success in helping floor nurses reduce time spent in the EHR and doing other administrative tasks. But at Sanford Health, nursing leadership wanted a more interactive platform.
Fostering Engagement Is Vital to Improving Workforce Retention
Lack of trust and low engagement are causing more and more healthcare workers to leave their organizations, according to a report from Press Ganey, putting the onus on hospital CEOs to commit to building social capital to ensure a sustainable workforce for the future.
New NCSBN Data Indicates Why Nurses Are Leaving the Workforce
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing recently published the latest 2024 National Nursing Workforce Study which surveyed 800,000 nurses about the state of the nursing workforce. According to the study, 40% of participants indicated their intention to leave the workforce in the next five years. The study also reported that 138,000 nurses have left the workforce since 2022.
National Nurses Week 2025 Resources from PSQH
As National Nurses Week wraps up, we want to salute the valuable and courageous work done by nurses at all levels of care. We highlighted the efforts of nurses this week and will continue to do so. Thanks to our partner, Drexel University, this week for their support.
PSQH Quick Poll 2025: Taking the Pulse of Nursing’s Impact on Patient Safety
As part of National Nurses Week, PSQH reached out to our readers with a few questions about how nursing impacts patient safety and healthcare quality. The Quick Poll had a total of 102 respondents. The PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with Drexel University.
Hey CNOs! Want to Keep Your Nurses? Invest in Middle Management!
Of the 20% of frontline nurses who say in the survey that they are considering leaving their jobs, 41% blame inadequate support from leadership as their top reason for doing so, second only to the 53% of unhappy respondents who say they’re simply looking for a better job.