Fortune July 25, 2022
Danielle Bowie is Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Transformation of Trusted Health, a career marketplace for healthcare professionals. Bowie has worked for health systems managing nurse workforces and as a practicing nurse for fifteen years.
Even though it’s been nearly a decade since my last role as a nurse manager, I still have vivid memories from my experience. Missed care opportunities, patient emergencies, and constant understaffing meant that every day was a marathon of life-or-death decisions with little room to process any of it. There was no talk of burnout or the mental strain of the job. You were expected to shake off one challenge and move quickly to the next. You did what you had to do...