Innovating Nurses in Short Supply
August 11, 2021
With the latest rapid surge of COVID-19, many US hospitals are facing a critical shortage of nurses. In addition to threatening immediate patient care, the lack of nurses available and their increasingly stressful workloads could blunt longer-term advances in care. As Lisa De Bode details in Issues, nurses have proven to be key innovators during the pandemic. They have developed new modes of care and solved a variety of logistical logjams, often on the fly to meet unforeseen needs. And critical to successful innovation, they have been instrumental in convincing institutions that the changes are worthwhile.