The Power of Self-Scheduling: Frontline Nurses’ Insights and Perspectives to Achieve Staffing Flexibility

The nursing workforce is in a crisis, and workforce flexibility for nurses is a promising solution to alleviating the crisis. Despite alignment on the importance of flexibility, frontline nurses and health care executives define workforce flexibility differently. A survey of 500 nurses was completed...

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Published in:Nurse leader 2024-08, Vol.22 (4), p.438-444
Main Authors: Gray, Sarah, Morris, Michelle Ragusa, Bowie, Danielle
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The nursing workforce is in a crisis, and workforce flexibility for nurses is a promising solution to alleviating the crisis. Despite alignment on the importance of flexibility, frontline nurses and health care executives define workforce flexibility differently. A survey of 500 nurses was completed to understand how frontline nurses define and perceive flexibility through a variety of flexible work arrangements. Recommendations for improving nursing workforce flexibility include increasing flexible work practices and offerings such as self-scheduling, part-time work, per-diem, and internal gig work.
ISSN:1541-4612
DOI:10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.012