Model aims to measure nursing’s economic value

Nursing researchers developed a model intended to enable hospital leaders to understand better how investing in nursing contributes to financial sustainability. The researchers want the model to serve as a framework hospital leaders can utilize to quantify and communicate how investments in nursing contribute directly to enhanced patient outcomes, cost savings and sustainable financial performance. The model attempts to flip the historical narrative of hospital executives viewing nursing primarily as a cost to hospitals. Nursing researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Marquette University developed the model, which was part of a two-year study led by the American Nurses Enterprise Institute for Nursing Research and Quality Management. (Becker’s Hospital Review article, 10/7/25)