Cardiovascular Nursing Workforce Challenges: Transforming the Model of Care for the Future

Gail M. Vozzella; Michelle C. Hehman

doi:10.14797/mdcvj.1188

Cardiovascular Nursing Workforce Challenges: Transforming the Model of Care for the Future

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal

Volume 19 (2023): Issue 2

By: Gail M. Vozzella and Michelle C. Hehman

Open Access

|Mar 2023

Abstract

The complexities of acute and critical care cardiovascular management demand specialty trained and experienced nurses to ensure quality patient outcomes. An ongoing nurse labor shortage threatens to destabilize the healthcare system and presents a twofold challenge: a decreasing supply of registered nurses and increasing demand for nursing services. This article describes the numerous forces driving the current nursing shortage as well as the impact of the coronavirus-19 pandemic on nurse job satisfaction and turnover. We present a reinvented model of nursing care as a framework for healthcare organizations to address nurse staffing challenges.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1188 | Journal eISSN: 1947-6108

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Language: English

Page range: 90 - 99

Submitted on: Nov 18, 2022

Accepted on: Dec 22, 2022

Published on: Mar 7, 2023

Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

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Keywords:

cardiovascular nursing,

© 2023 Gail M. Vozzella, Michelle C. Hehman, published by Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
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