Becker's Healthcare May 12, 2023
The nursing workforce is in crisis, and hospitals throughout the U.S. are looking for creative ways to attract more nurses today and beef up their talent pipelines so there will be a steady stream of new nurses on the horizon.
One idea, said more than 30 male nurses who spoke with Becker’s, is to look to what should be an obvious untapped resource — men.
The American Nurses Association says of the 4.3 million registered nurses in the U.S., only 13 percent are men .
Increasing the number of male nurses could have a significant impact on the healthcare industry, according to the ANA.
Jeffrey Heist MSN, RN, chief nursing officer and manager of utilization review/case management at the...