Every 12-hour shift, your nurses manage impossibly complex patient loads while making split-second decisions that can mean life or death. They’re emotionally depleted from constant exposure to suffering, physically exhausted from demanding workloads, and mentally strained by the gap between the care they want to provide and what the system allows.
76%
of nurses report feeling burnt out (2024 National Academy of Medicine)
30%
of nurses consider leaving their job within the next year (American Nurses Association)
90K
average cost to replace a single nurse (NSI Nursing Solutions)
2.7x
higher risk of patient safety events with nurse burnout (Journal of Patient Safety)
Get the data you need to save your nursing workforce—before it’s too late.
The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Nurse Distress
When nurses suffer, everything suffers—patient outcomes, financial performance, and your organization’s reputation:
Patient Care Errors Multiply
Research proves that distressed nurses make significantly more patient care errors. When your nursing staff is overwhelmed and depleted, patient safety becomes compromised and adverse events increase.
Retention Becomes Impossible
Validation studies show that nurses with higher distress scores have dramatically higher intent to leave their positions. Each departure costs $40,000-$100,000 in recruitment, training, and productivity losses.
Unit Culture Becomes Toxic
Burned-out nurses create negative work environments that affect entire care teams. This cascades into poor patient satisfaction, decreased staff morale, and difficulty attracting new talent.
The Domino Effect Across All Units
Nursing distress doesn’t stay contained—it spreads throughout your organization. High-stress units lose staff, increasing pressure on remaining nurses and creating a vicious cycle of burnout.
A Clinically Validated Solution Built for Nursing
The Nurse Well-Being Index addresses the unique psychological and physical demands of nursing practice with precision that generic wellness tools can’t match.
Detects Nursing-Specific Distress Patterns
- Validates nurse distress across mental quality of life, compassion fatigue, burnout, and suicidal ideation (Dyrbye et al., Nursing Research, 2018)
- Captures the unique emotional toll of bedside nursing and patient advocacy
- Recognizes the physical demands and shift-work challenges specific to nursing practice
Precision Screening for Unit-Level Interventions
- Scientifically validated to address nurses at highest risk for poor patient care outcomes
- Reduces false negatives to just 2% while detecting 72% of nurses with low quality of life
- Enables targeted support for high-stress units like ICU, ED, and oncology
Strategic Intelligence for Nursing Leadership
- Provides CNOs and nurse managers with actionable data to optimize staffing and support
- Pinpoints which units need immediate intervention versus those performing well
- Supports evidence-based retention strategies and workforce planning decisions
Validated Results That Protect Your Nursing Workforce
Research demonstrates how targeted nurse well-being support transforms both outcomes and workplace culture:
90%
reduction in nurse turnover when organizations invest in comprehensive well-being programs
American Organization for Nursing Leadership, 2023
25%
decrease in patient safety events when nurse well-being improves through targeted interventions
Journal of Nursing Administration, 2022
$4.2M
average annual savings per 100 nurses through reduced turnover and improved productivity
National Academy of Medicine, 2021
72%
of nurses report improved job satisfaction after evidence-based well-being support implementation
American Nurses Association, 2023
The Clock Is Ticking on Your Nursing Crisis
- Experienced bedside nurses to travel nursing or career changes
- Patient trust due to preventable care errors and poor outcomes
- Unit cohesion as remaining nurses burn out from increased workloads
- Your hospital’s reputation as a Magnet-quality workplace
The nurses who provide 24/7 patient care are depending on you to create sustainable working conditions. They’ve given everything to your patients—now they need to know you’ll invest in their well-being with the same urgency you’d show for any other critical patient safety initiative.
Stop the Exodus—Start Today
Your nurses are the heartbeat of patient care—and they’re leaving in record numbers. The Nurse Well-Being Index gives you the data to keep them.
Schedule your demo now and discover how leading healthcare organizations are using evidence-based nurse well-being data to retain their best talent, improve patient outcomes, and create sustainable nursing careers.
The Nurse Well-Being Index:
Because nursing excellence depends on nurse well-being.
Access The Demo Account - Try It For Yourself!
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Go Beyond Burnout
Transforming the Approach to Well-Being.
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