杰夫•理查兹

2023年4月6日

格斯球队,主编| 06年4月,2023多年的杰夫·理查兹,护士人员医疗的最大挑战之一。SnapNurse,公司的目标是连接这些点设施和医生之间最好的资格满足员工需求,制定帮助解决问题。医疗商业新闻和杰夫•理查兹公司创始人和首席开发和操作,讨论的情况和他的公司准备如何改进它。相关新闻::护士人员多年来的一个热门话题,尤其是COVID。事情今天站在哪里?杰夫·理查兹:人在医疗工作了25年,我听到的共识是,这是我们所见过的一样糟糕。多年来一直预测的护士人力资源短缺,但不是在规模和我们今天看到的程度。COVID之前的所有研究2020年的到来是指向护理短缺,将加速结束时十年(2018 - 2019)。这项研究集中在双人口趋势是护士人力资源数量的减少(由于婴儿潮一代的退休人员)和越来越多的病人(相同老化的人口需要更多的卫生保健)。令那些人口趋势是一个长达十年的(或更长时间)在护理学校投资不足和护理教师。 HCB News: And then COVID hit. JR: COVID in many ways was the perfect storm that exacerbated all of those existing trends. The growing problem of episodic understaffing suddenly transformed overnight into chronic and severe understaffing. Acute and post-acute facilities were overwhelmed by waves of COVID patients throughout the pandemic. Staff-to-patient ratios quickly exceeded anything we've ever seen outside of war zones, and crisis staffing provisions that were intended to be short-term became the new normal. After enduring almost two years in crisis mode, many nurses burned out, retired early, or quit bedside care altogether. All of this has led to a post-pandemic staffing crisis which has only further reduced an already shrinking nurse workforce. This new crisis in nurse staffing could persist for up to a decade unless we collectively find new ways to address the underlying problem holistically. HCB News: Can you talk about the staffing crisis from the point of view of hospitals and health systems? JR: Reports showed last year’s RN turnover to be about 30 percent on average, but we’ve spoken with some hospitals and post-acute facilities that are battling with closer to 100% turnover in certain specialties like emergency medicine. With turnover rates that high, staffing has become their administrators’ all-consuming priority. Before quality improvement initiatives, before starting up a new service line, before any strategic activity at all, they must ensure safe and appropriate staff-to-patient ratios. 1(current)