Ingenovis Health’s Chief Nurse Advisory Board 2023-24 Report

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Ingenovis Health has released its first Chief Nurse Advisory Board Report (CNAB). The report 2023-2024 raises red flags about challenges healthcare organizations will face in the future to retain staff, especially nurses. It also points to opportunities to engage staff and safeguard their physical and mental wellbeing.

The CNAB is composed of executives from health organizations, health systems, universities, and outside agencies across the U.S. CNAB members bring invaluable input from their diverse backgrounds and extensive clinical and industry experience to establish an interprofessional and multidisciplinary approach to Ingenovis Health’s ACT program.

The ACT program, unique among staffing organizations, promotes advocacy of the nursing community. The CNAB advises on ways to address relevant issues, create effective responses and proposed approaches to support key causes.

“We collaborate as industry leaders from multiple health systems and organizations to strengthen the clinician workforce,” explains Dr. Robin Geiger, chair of the CNAB, and Ingenovis Health’s Chief Nursing Officer. “The latest report focuses on three key areas – clinician retention, clinician safety, and thought leadership.”

100% of CNAB members agreed healthcare leaders would benefit from thought leadership and resources aimed at improving clinician retention.

“Retaining experienced clinicians supports increased access to care and reduces delays in timely treatment. Ultimately, retention supports a more effective and patient-centered healthcare system,” the report states.

100% of CNAB members agreed that increasing clinician engagement when exposed to or witnessing trauma is essential.

The report highlights an Ingenovis Health Clinician Safety initiative that includes preventative education and ensures one-to-one support for clinicians who have witnessed or experienced trauma or violence at the bedside.

Support of and pursuit of Magnet Status was seen by CNAB leadership as a premiere opportunity.

Forty percent of CNAB members identified financial and resource constraints and leadership commitment and involvement as top barriers to achieving Magnet Status. The CNAB report lists three recommendations related to supporting pursuit of Magnet Status: all-staff participation, understanding quality, and shared governance.

Mentorship is also a focus of the CNAB’s 2023-24 report.

82% of CNAB members utilize some type of mentorship program to improve retention, onboarding and culture and 72% said having a mentorship program had had a positive impact on clinician retention. To measure the success of a mentorship program 18% used feedback from survey tools, 55% used retention rates and 18% used informal feedback. The report lists five primary types of mentorship programs: onboarding, professional associations, leadership/coaching, internal structured program, and peer programs.

The CNAB 2023-24 report concludes with a focus on Building Culture.

CNAB members see increasing clinician engagement with the organization as critical. A number of engagement tactics are presented including retreats, social meals, roundtables, and other team-building activities. While seen as critical, organizations generally feel they have more work to do in this area. Only 13% of CNAB members rated their culture-building initiatives as excellent, 60% rated their activities as fair, 12% rated them poor, and 12% said their activities needed improvement. The report lists three recommendations for building culture: celebrating life successes, holding routine recognition, and making it a policy and a priority.

The report also emphasizes the importance of onboarding contingent staff. More than 45% of CNAB members included their team at the pre-planning stage of hiring and 23% reported they provided no insight into the organization to contingency staff.

For more information about the Ingenovis Health ACT Program or the CNAB 2023-24 Report, email ACT@IngenovisHealth.com.

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