Becker's Healthcare February 27, 2023
To address the challenges faced by the nursing profession today, it is vital that healthcare leadership first understand them. For example, nurses are not currently practicing to the top of their license due to staffing shortages we’ve been seeing. This is leading to burnout, and even leading to nurses leaving the profession.
It’s also essential to understand the internal challenges created by generational differences, with Traditionalists and Baby Boomers beginning to leave the workforce and Gen Z entering it. This contributes to our pipeline issue, exacerbated by the lack of infrastructure at the academic level to support the demand needed within facilities—this includes lack of clinical site availability, graduates desiring to go back to school for advanced degrees, and students...