The nation’s 4 million registered nurses – the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system – are increasingly exhausted, under stress and demoralized. Many are contending with long work hours, inadequate institutional support, workplace violence and perceived pay disparities between staff and travel nurses among other challenges. If these problems are not addressed in the near term, experts warn that many states will face shortages of nurses through 2030.
Our panel will focus on promising strategies and new data suggesting the best ways to address this crisis, including improved nurse-patient ratios, stronger communication between management and nurses, retention incentives, robust mental health and workplace support programs, more enlightened use of staffing skill sets and better mentoring of new nurses.
SPEAKERS:
- Iman Abuzeid, M.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Incredible Health
- Suzanne (Sue) Algeri, RN, MS, NE-BC, Associate Chief Nurse, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Ernest Grant, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Past President (2019-2022), American Nurses Association; Adjunct Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
- Gail M. Vozzella, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Moderator: Elizabeth Whitehead, Managing Editor, U.S. News & World Report
