Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2019
By Amy Wilson, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations for Ascension

Upended and disoriented by healthcare reform that has restructured healthcare organizations and is transforming how care is delivered, the nursing workforce has felt the ramifications of maintaining an outdated care delivery model.

In recent years, nurses have been subject to heavier workloads, lower staffing levels, and poor and complex work environments. Such conditions that have plagued sites of care throughout America have sparked unacceptable increases in burnout, turnover and vacancies. Nursing represents the largest sector of the healthcare workforce, with nurses touching 125.7 million patients each year in the United States, according to the CDC. Healthcare leaders must modernize nursing care models to decrease burnout and empower nurses to improve and advance the care they deliver.

Burnout is an epidemic...

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