Affirming nurses value

The experience of the pandemic has again brought to the fore many of the long-term concerns regarding nursing roles and value and has laid bare their impact on nurses. Recent progress on the delineation of nursing value has receded as the urgency of the pandemic reduced nurses to interchangeable task-completers agnostic to specialty knowledge from where nurses sense their professional value. The traumas of the pandemic have caused highly qualified nurses to doubt their desire to be nurses and called into question their very purpose.

Source: Nursing Outlook - April 12, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Tim Porter-O'Grady, Sharon Pappas Source Type: research