Pay increases; transparency about long-term plans to retain current and recruit additional staff and not hiring travel nurses who live within a certain radius of their hospitals are some of the ways CNOs are tempering resentment toward travel nurses. At Charleston, S.C.-based Roper St. Francis Healthcare, AONL member Marissa Jamarik, DNP, RN, vice president and system CNO, is also using the presence of travelers to allow staff nurses to take time off to recuperate from the strains of the pandemic."At the end of the day, what my workforce here needs to know is that I have a plan,” Jamarik said, “and people need to see progress.” (Becker’s Hospital Review article, 10/19/21)
