Chief Healthcare Executive February 9, 2024
Health systems are more likely to retain nurses if they listen to their concerns, reduce some tasks, and move to more flexible schedules, nursing advocates say.
As many nurses complain of burnout and hospitals continue to find it difficult to hire and keep nurses, healthcare executives need to be talking to and listening to their nurses.
Nurses have grown weary of inflexible schedules that leave them drained, says Renee Saldana, a spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW).
“I’ve heard people say, enough with the mandatory overtime, enough with the double shifts,” Saldana tells Chief Healthcare Executive®. “That’s why they quit and left, because they were just burned out and had no time for their families...
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