HealthLeaders Media June 20, 2022
Inova Health’s chief nurse executive offers long-term steps to recruit and retain nurses.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– After implementing staffing stop-gap measures during the pandemic, healthcare organizations are taking long-term steps to attract and retain nurses.
– Inova redefined the meaning of shared governance, elevating nurses’ involvement from the unit or department level to the system level.
– Inova provides career development for nurses who want to explore different areas of healthcare than where they were trained.
During the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurse leaders were faced with critical staffing shortages when nurses were needed most, with one study indicating that 62.5% of chief nursing executives (CNEs) surveyed did not have adequate nursing staff and 79.1% experienced high...