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1President, Drenkard Healthcare Consulting (Drenkard), Fairfax, VA.
Abstract:
The need to swiftly recruit new graduate nurses by offering higher salaries has placed experienced bedside nurses at risk of salary compression, a narrowing pay gap that has the possibility of undermining morale, retention, and organizational stability. Fueled by pandemic-era market shifts, recruitment incentives, and stagnant salary adjustments for long-tenured nursing staff, the result has been a workforce imbalance that threatens the loss of experienced nurses, nursing morale, and impacts on the quality of care. This column examines the causes and consequences of pay compression among clinical nurses and offers strategies for nurse executives to restore fairness while maintaining recruitment momentum. Valuing experienced nurses through market-competitive salary adjustments is both a leadership and operational imperative and is essential to sustaining workforce stability, clinical excellence, and outstanding patient outcomes.
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