Maximizing the potential value of the nursing workforce

Nurs Outlook. 2024 Jan-Feb;72(1):102016. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2023.102016. Epub 2023 Aug 12.

Abstract

This panel paper is the fifth installment in a six-part Nursing Outlook special edition based on the 2022 Emory Business Case for Nursing Summit. The 2022 summit convened national nursing, health care, and business leaders to explore possible solutions to nursing workforce crises, including the nursing shortage. Each of the summit's four panels authored a paper in this special edition on their respective topic, and this panel paper focuses on maximizing the potential value of the nursing workforce. It addresses topics including the need to create a nursing-inclusive federal health care billing system improve nursing salaries by designing/testing nurse-informed compensation models, and strengthen nursing's national professional infrastructure.

Keywords: Healthcare billing; Nurse turnover; Nursing compensation; Nursing salaries; Nursing shortage; Value-based care.

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Humans
  • Nursing Staff*
  • Workforce