Becker's Healthcare August 5, 2022
With an estimated 130,000 new cases reported each day and ongoing staff shortages across the country, the highly transmissible BA.5 variant of the coronavirus, a subvariant of omicron, poses a threat to recruiting and retaining nurses. Iman Abuzeid, MD, CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health, an organization that matches nurses with available hospitals and health systems positions, weighed in on this issue with Becker’s and has solutions for how hospitals can best tackle further nursing shortages.
Question: How will the BA.5 variant worsen the nursing shortage in the U.S.?
Dr. Iman Abuzeid: We’re seeing our retention rates decrease. The turnover right now among nurses is at 21 and a half percent, and it’s the highest it’s ever been in...
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