AONL Releases Longitudinal Study

The top three challenges facing nurse leaders are staff recruitment and retention, financial resource availability and workplace violence, according to AONL Foundation’s 2024 Longitudinal Nurse Leadership Insight Study. While still an obstacle, the state of staff emotional health and well-being is at its best since July 2020. The challenge of traveling nurses and contingent workforce also has improved substantially since the summer of 2022. The five-part study examines changes in health care from the perspective of nurse leaders. The latest iteration, based on responses from nearly 2,500 nurse leaders, also includes data on nurse leader satisfaction and intent to leave. For more information, including effective solutions to combat the top challenges, see the report.