Legislators and leaders of healthcare organizations are exploring ways to revitalize the nation’s healthcare workforce amid pandemic-driven turmoil that’s spurring many nurses, physicians and other staff to leave their roles when hospitals need them most.
Shortages throughout the omicron wave have posed different challenges as staff called in sick or quit their jobs entirely for higher-paying traveling nurse positions. That’s leaving hospitals in a bind as they treat higher acuity COVID-19 patients and others who deferred care throughout the pandemic.
