Fierce Healthcare March 11, 2024
Onboarding new graduates into healthcare has become more difficult following pandemic disruptions and will require greater attention and investment from the industry in order to stem preventable patient harm, ECRI warned in a new report.
Monday, the healthcare quality and safety group named challenges with transitioning newly trained clinicians as its top patient safety concern of 2024 and cited missed learning opportunities alongside increased workloads. The group also pointed to the broader healthcare workforce crisis, in which a large number of knowledgeable professionals—from whom greener clinicians could learn from—have departed the field, and a growing number of workers new and old report experiencing burnout.
“Through no fault of their own, clinicians who started practicing medicine in the last several years...