Think Tank proposes short-term actions for improved staffing. To call the nurse staffing shortage a crisis in no way exaggerates the situation. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses felt undervalued and assailed by dysfunctional systems, ineffective policies, and substandard, sometimes unsafe, work environments. The pandemic has only intensified those concerns, leaving nurses nationwide worn down,…

Ending the crisis
By: Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, President, American Nurses Association