Inspiring, Recruiting, and Retaining the Health-Care Workforce: What Will it Take?

Abstract

The U.S. health-care system, the costliest in the world, is facing an exodus of nurses and other healthcare workers. The growth of corporate medicine has contributed to clinician stress and burnout, and has created conditions that have eroded autonomy. Reform is needed that creates cultures in which healthcare providers have agency to make decisions that impact their practice and all aspects of patient care. Massive change is needed to inspire, recruit, and retain the health-care workforce.