Toxic Nursing

Today’s nurse managers—tasked with a wide array of responsibilities from staffing and budgeting to promoting safe and effective patient care—face unprecedented demands in their role as leaders of the largest healthcare workforce in the industry. They must be clinically competent, relationally savvy, and administratively gifted—and find the time to create and sustain a healthy work environment. In addition to those demands, the lopsided aging of the population has had a double impact: More n...