HealthLeaders Media January 15, 2024
Two leaders share their insights and strategies to help CNOs work together with staff and problem solve.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Exhaustion, heavy workloads, and the nursing shortage are all major contributing factors to the dissatisfaction of nurses in the industry.
– Strikes are avoidable if CNOs commit to opening lines of communication with unions and partner with them to address the nurses’ concerns.
– CNOs must prepare a contingency plan for continuing operations when nurses go on strike.
Nurses everywhere are going on strike.
Right now, it seems like every day there are new cases of nurses striking or unionizing at health systems all across the country.
Nurses are frustrated, and the recent union activity is indicative of large, widespread...