Hospitalists and hospital administrators know the greatest challenge to providing safe, high-quality healthcare day in and day out in the U.S. is adequate nurse staff. Already a problem before the pandemic, the nursing shortage continues to worsen. By 2025, less than a year from now, the U.S. will have a shortage of 200,000 to 450,000 nurses available for direct patient care, equivalent to a gap of 10% to 20%.1 There is some dispute about the existence of an overall shortage of nurses, but what is clear is that nurses are leaving direct patient care, especially medical-surgical nurses, in droves.

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