2022 Emory Business Case for Nursing Summit: What has changed in the past year.

This commentary paper concludes the Business Case for Nursing special edition. The special edition covered major areas of dialogue from the 2022 Emory Business Case for Nursing Summit. The 2022 summit, led by Emory School of Nursing in partnership with Emory School of Business, convened national nursing, health care, and business leaders. Its aim was to explore possible solutions to nursing workforce crises, including nursing shortages. Each of the summit's four panels authored a paper in this special edition on their respective topic(s) of discussion. This paper is written by the summit's hosting deans and closing speaker in response to those discussions. It shares major policy and regulatory reforms that have taken place since the summit and highlights workforce needs that will require continued attention in 2023 and beyond. Topics include issues driving nurse turnover and workforce distribution, the relationship(s) between working conditions and nursing retention, the importance of competitive nursing salaries, and the need for systems to protect resilience in nursing.

Social comparison and perceived envy-motivated communication involving travel nurses: A qualitative study.

AIM: This study investigated travel nurses' perception of their communication and relational experiences with other nurses. BACKGROUND: It is common for nurses to offer and to accept help, especially since nurses enter and exit numerous nursing teams throughout their careers and sometimes several times within a single shift. The social norm of reciprocity suggests that nurses supported by other nurses will likely reciprocate in prosocial behaviour. However, when and whom one can or will help highlight differences in individuals' ability to share and compete for personal and professional resources. METHOD: Thematic analysis on data collected through semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: Four categories of perceived envy-motivated communication conceptualize nurses' communication and relational experiences. CONCLUSION: This study underscores the pervasiveness of social comparison and perceived envy-motivated communication among nurses. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nurse managers should explore how they might leverage social comparison and the effects of envy to improve unit productivity. One strategy that nurse managers might adopt to promote fairness perception and trust is to communicate expressly how they allocate resources to their nurses. A sequential strategy to level the gap in nurses' exposure to different ways of overcoming resource deficiencies is to encourage mutual learning as prosocial behaviour.