Becker's Healthcare September 6, 2024
Many hospitals are seeing nurse staffing levels stabilize after several years marked by significant shortages. While a welcome trend for the nation’s healthcare system, it presents a new challenge.
“The move towards stabilization in the nursing workforce — that’s real, that’s true,” said Marie Foley-Danecker, DNP, RN, vice president and chief nursing officer at Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean University Medical Center in Brick Township, N.J.
For hospital leaders, the challenge that comes in tandem is ensuring their organizations are set up to support the needs of a rising novice population of nurses, she told Becker’s. The influx of younger nurses entering the workforce in recent years and the exit of more tenured nurses has shifted the median age...
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