STAT January 13, 2022
It’s been said so often it’s almost trite: Burnout among nurses drags down hospitals’ quality of care, hollows out the ranks of nurses, and smashes to smithereens any resilience they might have built.
But just as plain as the human tragedy of burnout and attrition in this group of health care workers is the frankness of its remedy: What ails our nation’s nurses can be solved with changes in how they are paid, an infusion of cash to support them, and policies that link nurse burnout and attrition rates to hospitals’ bottom lines.
Academics have linked nurse burnout to job turnover, which typically costs a hospital between $3.6 to nearly $7 million a year. Beyond its direct financial costs, their...
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