Nursing Leadership Workforce Compendium
In alignment with AONL's strategic initiatives, the AONL Workforce Committee and subcommittees identified best practices and innovations to help strategize and manage the complexities of the nursing workforce. The goal of the AONL Workforce Compendium is to bring these best practices and innovations together to be shared widely, to support and empower nurse leaders in attaining, retaining, and sustaining environments where nurses want to work and feel like they belong. Information in this compendium will be updated periodically as information becomes available.
Workforce Care Models Inventory
Since the Workforce Compendium, several sub-committees have been formed to move the work forward. Among other charges, the Models of Care group’s work includes collecting and cataloging the various care models across the country – and we need your help!
Please use the button below to ensure that your organization’s care model innovations are included in AONL’s catalog.
AONL/AHA Learning Community – Join Us!
The community’s aim is to enhance collaboration, knowledge sharing and capacity building among organizations involved in care model innovation. We seek to inspire positive change in health care delivery and bring joy back to the workplace!
*For access, you must be a member and use your AONL/AHA credentials to login or set up an account. If you are not yet an AONL member, please learn more about eligibility/joining for community access.
Workforce Innovations & Best Practices
As part of the AONL Workforce Committee's effort to keep resources updated, we are calling on you to help us by sharing your exemplars and scenarios of best practices as related to the below categories. We recognize that the healthcare environment has evolved, and we look to periodically release new information in an effort to support you. In order to better our resources, we are interested in hearing what best practices our materials have sparked in your organizations.
- Compensation and Benefits
- Cost of Nurse Manager Turnover
- Culture of Inquiry
- Frontline Nurse Leader Recruitment and Retention
- Leadership
- December Whitepaper: The Role of the Nurse Manager: Evolution of the Role in High-Turnover Environments
- January Whitepaper: The Role of the Nurse Manager: Implementing Team-Based Models of Care
- Models of Care
- Onboarding
- Positive Practice Environment
- Practice-Academic Partnerships
- Role Transitions and Interim Roles
- Span of Control
- Whitepaper coming soon.
- Members only span of control and ROI tools/calculators coming soon! Learn more about AONL membership to ensure access upon release.
- Succession Planning
- February Whitepaper: An Essential Workforce Strategy to Retain and Attract Current and Future Leaders
- Talent Acquisition and Attraction
- Technology Solutions
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CONNECTION IS RETENTION: Lessons from Leaders with Unusually High Nurse Retention
Crucial Learning and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) partnered to address high turnover in nursing. See the results of our collaboration in Connection is Retention: Lessons from Leaders with Unusually High Nurse Retention.
Longitudinal Nursing Leadership Insight Study
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership partnered with Joslin Insight to conduct a four-part longitudinal study on the impact of COVID-19 on nursing leadership in key areas over time. The latest study, based on insight from more than 2,200 nurse leaders, also includes data on nurse leader satisfaction and intent to leave.