Championing Nursing Workforce Through Innovative Dialogues and Collaborations

ABSTRACT

Cumulatively, it has had a hand in the great resignation, pushed hospitals profit margins into the nether regions, and reached into the ranks of nursing students, as well as their faculty, the academic workforce (Leaver et al., 2022). [...]the public, while grateful at least in the most difficult days of the pandemic, not only failed to translate these actions into strong policies that would result in much tangible change on a national level (Aiken et al., 2022), they have seemingly turned their own frustrations with health care delivery upon their former heroes, nurses themselves, resulting in episodes of nurse-directed assaults and violence, with an average of two nurses assaulted each hour in the United States (Press Ganey, 2022). According to Becker's Hospital Review (2022), an industry news source, "hospital margins are collapsing, and some organizations wonder if it's even possible to make money in the acute care space." Left unabated, shortages will result in patients receiving less face time with health care workers, lengthening current delays in diagnosis, reducing quality of care, burdening the health system (and patients) with our medical errors, and regretfully, increasing disparities and failure to adequately address social determinants of health.