Becker's Healthcare April 5, 2024
Erica Carbajal

Reimbursement alone isn’t among nurses’ top priorities. However, a lack of transparency in nurse reimbursement is a contributing factor to many of the top issues they do want addressed, such as workplace violence and inadequate staffing.

To get a pulse on what nurses want prioritized when it comes to policy, the American Nurses Association recently surveyed all of its members. Reimbursement scored fairly low in comparison to issues related to the work environment, like staffing and workplace violence, Tim Nanof, the ANA’s vice president of policy and government affairs, told Becker’s.

However, “the reimbursement structure is an underlying pressure point that makes it harder to affect change when it comes to things like workplace violence, staffing, and mandatory overtime,”...

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