The challenges nurses face are many – shortage of nursing and non-nursing personnel, leadership attrition and turnover, budgetary pressures, documentation burden, workplace violence, and physical and emotional tolls, to name a few. Many of these challenges are not new, most are relabeled or termed and have become more complicated and critical over the years with the introduction of new technology, high patient acuity, and regulatory requirements.

If that weren’t enough, advanced practice nurses are facing unreasonable calls from colleagues at the American Medical Association (AMA) for dual regulation from nursing and medical licensing boards which makes no sense during a time when the demand of independent practitioners outpaces the supply.

A recent study by McKinsey and the American Nurses Association Enterprise (ANAE) revealed that nurses believe that their time and workload could be better supported through better technological enablement and with more delegation of responsibilities.