Retention Over Recruitment: The Core Imperative
The World Health Organization’s latest workforce report underscores that international recruitment alone cannot resolve systemic nursing deficits. Health systems must address excessive paperwork, administrative burnout, and poor retention incentives.
Investing in assistive clinical judgment tools, bedside calculators, and structured loan forgiveness packages — such as the US CMS $275M initiative — represent the most cost-effective models for maintaining qualified nurse-to-patient ratios.