A/Prof Jeremy Lim | CEO AMLI
My nursing friends know I am a big supporter of nurses stepping up to leadership roles in the health system.
Hence it was a delight to work with Dr Brigitte Woo 胡芳溶, of National University of Singapore Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine on this article for The Straits Times on nursing recruitment, onboarding and retention.
Gist-
1️⃣ We applaud the recent Singapore financial measures to attract and retain more into nursing as a career and recognise these are necessary but insufficient. Autonomy, career progression and professional support are also critical.
2️⃣ Injecting large numbers of nurses into the system does present patient safety and clinical quality risks and we urge the Ministry of Health (Singapore) and healthcare leaders to proactively track and correlate measures like medication errors, falls, hospital-acquired infections etc with the onboarding of new nurses.
3️⃣ Our pace of absorption should be limited by our system’s ability to safely onboard new nurses
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