Flexible scheduling and new care models can help provide nurses the work-life balance they demand.

Key Takeaways

• Hospitals must respond to nurses’ demands for better work-life balance.
• The nursing shortage is requiring most hospitals to adopt different care models.
• Staffing, unit size, unit makeup, and staff experience all must be considered in implementing a new care model.

Getting creative with staffing and offering flexible scheduling to nurses are among the strategies that acute-care hospitals can adopt to keep the nurses they have and attract new ones, says a health system executive.

“The nursing exodus is driven, in part, by a desire for better work-life balance,” says Jill Bayless, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FACHE, HACP, senior vice president of clinical services for Community Hospital Corporation (CHC), based in Plano, Texas.

Read the full article in HealthLeaders, January 20, 2023.