Strengthening Europe’s nursing workforce: strategies for retention
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
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27 p.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted severe shortcomings in the nursing workforce across Europe, exacerbating existing understaffing and exposing the constraints of historically poor work environments. This policy brief explores the scale and nature of these problems and the reasons for nurse attrition, and proposes strategies for retention. It has been written as part of the European Union Horizon 2020 project, Magnet4Europe, which aims to improve clinician well-being and the quality of patient care in European hospitals.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted severe shortcomings in the nursing workforce across Europe, exacerbating existing understaffing and exposing the constraints of historically poor work environments. This policy brief explores the scale and nature of these problems and the reasons for nurse attrition, and proposes strategies for retention. It has been written as part of the European Union Horizon 2020 project, Magnet4Europe, which aims to improve clinician well-being and the quality of patient care in European hospitals.