Strategies to Boost Nurse Manager Morale and Outcomes

As COVID-19 taught us, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. Recent research from AONL put a spotlight on the challenges nurse managers have long faced but were exacerbated by the pandemic.

It’s imperative that we recognize the simple truth that the job is difficult—technically and emotionally. Hospital leadership must think differently regarding the challenges they face and provide them with tools that make it easier to focus on patient care. With 67% of nursing leadership identifying emotional health and wellbeing of staff as a major challenge, it’s also essential that nurse managers receive much-deserved emotional recognition for giving their all to their patients and we accept it is a moral imperative that we provide new models of care to build healthy environments.