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The workforce crisis

The battle for talent is underway, and organizations need to create environments that will attract and retain the workforce needed to grow. Explore our research on the state of the healthcare workforce to understand what workers want, develop strategies to win and retain talent, and maximize the effectiveness of your care teams.


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Recruit and retain

  • Physicians are burned out, so employers must strive to win physician talent.
  • Young nurses today have more employment opportunities than ever and face little to no penalty for changing jobs. To retain new, young employees, leaders must focus on skill development, hardwire a support network, and launch career planning.
  • It's time to stop thinking about how healthcare systems are "losing" staff to parenthood and to start actively supporting the parental roles of their employees in and outside of the workplace.

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Build diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • To be a destination workplace for talent from all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives, you must embed diversity and inclusion in every aspect of your talent management strategy.
  • Organizations with diverse workforces — in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender identity, culture, language, ability, and more — and inclusive cultures are stronger businesses.

Develop leaders

  • Individual interventions, such as training and coaching sessions, are not enough to cultivate resilient leaders. They must be paired with an organizational approach that addresses the environment in which leaders operate.
  • Nurse manager overload is not only bad for nurse managers, it’s even worse for their organizations.
  • To ensure nurse managers can lead as needed and oversee their units, organizations need to assess exactly how managers are using their time and determine what activities can be delegated and what support is necessary. 

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