The Task Force on the Future of the Nursing Workforce seeks to develop a vision for enhancing and supporting North Carolina’s nursing workforce, with a particular focus on licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs). Task force members will meet six times between February and December 2023.
State of Healthcare in North Carolina Report Includes Workforce Challenges
NCHA has released a new annual report about the state of healthcare in North Carolina as of year-end 2022. The report explains how health systems and hospitals provide extensive community benefits and economic impacts, in addition to making advancements to expand access, drive innovation, improve health equity, and to recruit and support a diverse workforce. The report also details some of the challenges NCHA members face, from workforce shortages and inflation to reimbursement cuts and the lack of Medicaid expansion in the state.
NCHA Provides Sample Nurse Traveler Policy
NCHA created a sample nurse traveler policy as guidance for hospitals’ and health systems to help facilitate predictability in coverage and ensure quality care for patients. A best practice that some hospitals use when working with travelers is having a restriction on how close the traveler lives. NCHA cannot provide a recommendation on the distance under this policy, and each hospital or health system should make its own independent determination about implementing this guidance, particularly with regard to imposing any distance restrictions.
AHA Guide Offers Innovative Strategies to Attract, Retain Workers
The American Hospital Association (AHA) released its annual snapshot of employment at America’s hospitals and health systems, which offers innovative strategies to help organizations build a robust workforce in the face of ongoing shortages and reconnect their clinicians to purpose and help them thrive. Click here to read the 2023 Health Care Workforce Scan. Also attached is the Executive Summary, powerpoint presentations (executive summary and full) and sample social posts.
Workforce Challenges Report from AHA and AVIA Health
While the list of actions that hospital and health system leaders can take to navigate workforce challenges can seem overwhelming, a good place to start is with technology. The latest addition to the AHA’s Strengthening the Workforce series is the Workforce Technology Guide produced in partnership with AVIA Health, a digital transformation partner for health care organizations. The report offers expert insights and an impact framework that demonstrate how digital approaches can guide your workforce strategies.
Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
This report, developed under the guidance of the AHA Board of Trustees’ Task Force on Workforce and with input from many members of the AHA, will help hospitals navigate workforce challenges and opportunities, as well as highlight strategies and resources to assist on these pivotal efforts. The report includes this toolkit.
AHA Releases 2023 Environmental Scan
AHA recently released its 2023 Environmental Scan, which provides key data and insights on the current healthcare landscape and can help organizations explore the pandemic’s ramifications on the healthcare field for the upcoming year and beyond. It covers a variety of topics, including workforce shortages, resiliency and technology solutions.
Guide to digital workforce solutions
A report from AHA’s Strengthening the Health Care Workforce series offers frameworks and insights to help healthcare leaders identify and implement digital workforce solutions to alleviate burden and build capacity.
AONL Compendium Rolls Out Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Nurses
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) released a three-part compendium focuses on best practices to manage nursing workforce complexities. The sections focus on recruiting and retaining nurses, leadership, academic-practice partnerships, culture, and compensation and benefits.
AONL Releases Latest Findings from Nurse Leader Survey
Staff emotional health and well-being, staff retention and the cost of travel nursing were the top three challenges facing nurse leaders, although staff emotional health has improved since last year, according to this survey by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and Joslin Insight. Nurse leaders said it was most difficult to respond to challenges related to financial resources and the traveler/contingent workforce, followed by staff retention, health equity, and workplace violence/incivility.
Study projects nursing shortage crisis will continue without concerted action
An estimated 97,000 registered nurses left the workforce during the past two years due to stress, burnout and retirements, and another 610,388 reported an intent to leave over the next five years.’
Nurse Staffing Think Tank Develops Toolkit to Address Staffing Crisis
The Nurse Staffing Think Tank, a diverse group of nursing leaders, frontline nurses, CEOs, chief financial officers, human resources executives, and patient safety representatives, identified six priority areas that need urgent actionThe group’s toolkit includes a set of priorities and recommendations that provide immediate strategies for those six priority areas that can be feasibly implemented in the short term (12-18 months) to help address the nurse staffing crisis.
Study: Women working in the healthcare industry
A study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org about women working in the healthcare industry finds that despite women being the majority in entry level positions, trends in promotion rates, retention, and external hiring have not kept pace to improve representation of women at more senior management levels in healthcare.
From High School to RN: An Innovative Approach to Creating a Diverse Workforce
Wellstar Health System, in Marietta, Ga., has created a program designed to support students’ career paths in nursing at the health care system, geared to appeal to a broad and diverse group of students. The Wellstar Nursing Careers Pathway program begins with high school students and helps address the statewide need for certified nursing assistants (CNAs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), associate-degree RNs, and baccalaureate-prepared RNs.
AHA Releases Guide to Building a Community Health Worker Program
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently released a guide offering research, resources and case studies to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen and sustain their health care workforce. CHWs are community members who serve as connectors between health care providers and consumers to promote health among groups that have traditionally been underserved.