Becker's Healthcare March 28, 2023
The International Council of Nurses has declared nurse shortages to be a global health emergency, with 13 million nurses needing to be replaced globally in the coming years.
The report, “Recover to Rebuild: Investing in the Nursing Workforce for Health System Effectiveness,” was published in March. It noted that health systems need to rebuild and invest in “redeploying resources to other parts of the health system to enable the backlog of non-COVID-19 care to be dealt with.”
“The underlying issue … is to recognize that for many working nurses this is not a short-term, one-off ‘acute’ episode or some obscure or distant phenomenon — it is pervasive and personal. It has been a...