From the Desk of the Chief Nurse

Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Chief Nurse, Wolters Kluwer, Health Learning, Research & Practice

It’s Time…Giving Back to Our Profession to Get Back the Nursing Profession

The nursing shortage has placed an enormous burden on academia and that burden worsened with the impact of COVID. Today there is real concern the profession will not graduate enough new nurses to fill the gaps of baby-boomer nurses retiring or younger nurses leaving the bedside to work in other areas. In academia, we are witnessing a similar situation, baby-boomer faculty are retiring and there are not enough faculty to replace the gaps. Resources are stretched thin and finding clinical sites for undergraduate and graduate nursing students is challenging.  Read more.