CNO: Nursing Workforce Recruitment and Retention

Recent data reveals a paradox confronting CNOs: nurse engagement is recovering even as turnover remains stubbornly elevated, and travel labor markets are normalizing without delivering the cost relief many systems anticipated. The strategic question is no longer whether to invest in retention, but where marginal dollars produce the highest yield — and emerging evidence from the last 60 days points to specific, non-obvious answers around Gen Z preparedness, academic-practice integration, and staggered international pipelines.