American Nurses Foundation
Flexible Workforce Modernization in Nursing
Develop and implement nurse-led projects to modernize inflexible staffing models, enabling coverage solutions that reduce burnout and strengthen retention and career progression.
Inflexible schedules fuel burnout, attrition, and stalled advancement for women nurses, who represent 88% of the workforce. The American Nurses Enterprise will provide nurse executive certification, executive mentorship, and project funding to a cohort of nurse leaders to implement flexible staffing innovations such as job sharing, short-shift bundles, caregiver-sensitive pathways, and AI-informed optimization. Outcomes include stabilized coverage, reduced burnout and absenteeism, stronger retention, and integration into our existing platforms and standards for widespread implementation.
Primary Barrier
Inflexible Workplaces
Location
Maryland
Solution Region
Nation-wide
Community Type
Urban
