Nurses are continuing to experience emotions ranging from disillusionment, to anxiety, to a lost sense of meaning in their work as the delta variant creates another surge. Meanwhile, there’s an ongoing nursing shortage that is making all of these problems worse.

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If your health system has goals around health equity, then it must make an intentional effort to do business with diverse vendors. This is even more important if the health system’s service area is diverse.

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When all this negative press gets out, it can trickle down to your team and affect confidence and morale. So, how can health systems prepare for and navigate these bad press incidents?

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In 2020, 40% of women said they’ve been sexually harassed at work. This number has stayed steady since the 1980s. This — in addition to COVID-19 and a recent reckoning about racial injustices — is causing companies to reexamine their culture and values.

There are at least four different generations represented in the healthcare workforce, all of which have their own views on what the workplace should look like: Generation Z, the Millennials, Generation X and the Baby Boomers.

This week, we’re discussing how much women should disclose about their parenting responsibilities to their employers, how to deal with mom guilt and how health systems can support parents who are also aspiring to the C-suite.

70% of mothers with children under age 18 are in the US labor force. Roughly 27% of working moms have said they’ve been treated as if they weren’t committed to their work, compared with 20% of working dads. 

In this episode, Tenet's Sally Deitch talks about balancing family and professional lives. 

In the U.S., about 80% of healthcare workers are women, but fewer than 20% hold key leadership positions.

For seasoned physicians who are looking to make a transition—whether it’s moving to another hospital or specialty, becoming an administrator, or moving beyond the hospital setting—what do they need to do? What is actually involved in making a big transition? And what special challenges do women physicians face?