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  Laura Wisniewski RN
 

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Presentations * Seminars * Keynotes


"The future of healthcare is 
in the hands of nurses."

Laura Wisniewski is an educator, speaker and writer with 25 years of frontline nursing experience. Her company, Nursing Voice provides empowering, solution oriented presentations on nursing workforce issues and professional development. Laura inspires and challenges nurses to improve healthcare.


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Nurses today are dealing with staffing issues, budgetary constraints, regulatory scrutiny, risk for injury, concerns for patient safety and challenges maintaining work-life balance. The nursing workforce is continuing to age. Turn-over rates are at an all time high. The cost of replacing a nurse is 1-2x their annual salary. Twenty five percent of all nurses in the US are no longer working in nursing. Even nurses who love nursing are thinking about leaving.

As a result, nurses are becoming increasingly discouraged. This is leading to an alaming rate of disengagemnt. Much has been written about the consequences of employee disengagement. An engaged employee is more than twice as effective, productive and creative as their disengaged counterpart. 


What industry would be more greatly impacted by this phenomenon than healthcare?  Nursing disengagement leads to increased medical errors, absenteeism, turnover and burnout. The disengaged nurse negatively affects the decision of others to enter nursing.  Achieving higher levels of engagement in the nursing workforce would profoundly effect patient outcomes and attract others to the profession.  

 Located in Clearwater, Florida