The nursing profession is in crisis as we move out of pandemic-related staffing pressures and move into shortages driven by retirement of the Baby Boom generation. Burnout in nursing was significant prior to the pandemic.1  According to Buerhaus,2  factors driving the current staff shortage include the retirement of one-third of the nursing workforce between 2010 and 2030, an increase in demand for nurses as the result of the expansion in both inpatient and outpatient specialties, and a growing number of frontline nurses who want to move into advanced practice positions. Per Buerhaus,2  an estimated 640 000 nurses will retire between 2020 and 2030, although some may have left early over the past 2 years because of the pandemic.

Traditional recruitment and retention strategies such as sign-on bonuses and other financial incentives are temporary solutions for the larger problem. Sign-on bonuses, for example, were given during the last...

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