What Nurses Say About Nursing, and What Should Change
A novel AI-assisted approach identified issues and developed recommendations.
There have been many articles about the current challenges in nursing and what might be done to improve nurses’ workplaces and retain nurses. While nurses have proven to be resilient long before, during, and since the COVID-19 pandemic, without changes by the systems in which they work, even the hardiest of nurses will become burned-out.
A recent report notes that the RN vacancy rate is almost 10% and the national turnover rate among hospital nursing staff is 20%. Surveys cite the familiar reasons: high and intense workload, insufficient staffing, bullying, and lack of support.
Since 2021, the R3:Resilient Nurses Initiative of Maryland has been creating and providing free resources to support nurses and nursing students as they deal with the stress and challenges in health care. Recently the initiative used a unique platform, Slow Talk, to elicit discussions with nurses about their perspectives on nursing and what they think needs to happen so nurses are able to practice in ways that reflect their education and commitments. (Click here to listen to a related podcast discussion about the Slow Talk platform and its value as a place for frontline workers to […]
