Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2023
Nurse staffing challenges at healthcare organizations have a significant effect on care delivery, patient safety and the viability of organizations, according to the Partners for Nurse Staffing Task Force’s May 10 report.
“This crisis is not a nursing problem; it is a healthcare system problem,” Connie Barden, MSN, RN, chief clinical officer of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, told Becker’s. “Inappropriate staffing endangers patients, nurses and the entire health delivery system.”
Partners for Nurse Staffing launched a two-prong project in early 2022 to bring together leaders from several nursing organizations to make suggestions on how to fix the nursing challenges. The group created the Nurse Staffing Think Tank as a prelude to a more comprehensive project which was to...