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International Nurses Day is an important opportunity to check the pulse of nurses around the world, especially in 2022. Nurses have given their all in the response to pandemics, natural disasters, and in war zones, in leading mass COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts, and in completely redesigning how and where care is delivered. The value of nurses has never been more clear. Nor could it be any clearer that not enough is being done to protect nurses and other health workers, tragically underscored by the more than 180,000 health worker deaths due to COVID-19 and the alarming increase of mental health conditions and concerns nurses report.
COVID-19 has altered many nurses’ career plans – over the past two years, McKinsey & Company has found that worldwide, nurses consistently, and increasingly, report planning to leave the workforce at higher rates compared with the past decade. Those departures have profound implications for the health of citizens and systems everywhere. Indeed, the greatest threat to global health is the workforce shortage.
As part of our Meeting of Minds series, we listen in as four McKinsey partners from their Healthcare Systems & Services practice discuss the results of a McKinsey & Company survey of frontline nurses across six countries including Brazil, France, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In this conversation we hear Gretchen Berlin, RN, Thomas London, MBA, Robin Roark, MD, MBA, and Senthu Arumugam, MBA explore the survey’s findings of why nurses are considering leaving their roles, what energizes them to keep going, and how nurses around the world are eager to innovate and deliver care in different and better ways to solve what has become a consequential global problem.
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Guests
Resources
- Nurses: A Voice to Lead
- National Nurses Month
- Nurses and the Great Attrition
- Around the world nurses say meaningful work keeps them going
- A Worriesome Drop in the Numbers of Young Nurses
- The greatest threat to global health
- Why We Must Invest in Our Healthcare Workforce
- Assessing the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce
- Surveyed nurses consider leaving direct patient care at elevated rates
- Nursing in 2021: Retaining the healthcare workforce when we need it most
- International Center for Nurse Migration’s Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond
- Increased workforce turnover and pressures straining provider operations
- Survey: US hospital patient volumes move back towards 2019 levels
- Policy Strategies for Addressing Current Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce
- Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
- State of the world's nursing 2020: investing in education, jobs and leadership
