Pool of retired and nonworking emergency nurses could be recruited in a disaster
The COVID-1
9 pandemic fueled an acute, countrywide need for registered nurses, and this underscored the need for clear staffing plans and an assessment of what, exactly, the registered nursing workforce looks like.
To that end, new research published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine by assistant professor Sue Anne Bell, a disaster expert on the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, estimates the workforce capacity of all registered nurses who are not currently working in the nursing field in the United States and attempts to describe the job mobility of emergency nurses.
