How nurses can help contain health care costs
Due to ever increasing health care costs, stakeholders in the health care system rely heavily upon front-line workers to assist in containing costs to help make health care more affordable. Since nursing is the largest sector of front-line workers, the field has an opportunity to greatly impact cost containment. Currently, there are 2.7 million nurses in the workforce, with an expected growth rate of 26% over the next decade; however, …