From Burnout to Balance: Redesigning Nurse Manager Workload
- Presenter(s): Shanon Fucik
- Session Length: 50 minutes
- Date: Mar 30, 2026
Nurse managers are essential to workforce stability and patient outcomes, yet many face unsustainable spans of control that drive burnout, turnover, and diminished performance. This session highlights national evidence and a Midwestern academic medical center's restructuring initiative that optimized nurse manager capacity, improved engagement, and advanced patient quality and safety. Participants will gain a replicable framework for right-sizing nurse leadership structures.
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
- Apply evidence to evaluate span of control, improve leader well-being, and track workforce impact.
- Utilize a standardized tool for objective review of nurse manager workload and span of control.
description
Nurse managers are essential to workforce stability and patient outcomes, yet many face unsustainable spans of control that drive burnout, turnover, and diminished performance. This session highlights national evidence and a Midwestern academic medical center's restructuring initiative that optimized nurse manager capacity, improved engagement, and advanced patient quality and safety. Participants will gain a replicable framework for right-sizing nurse leadership structures.Learning Outcomes
- Apply evidence to evaluate span of control, improve leader well-being, and track workforce impact.
- Utilize a standardized tool for objective review of nurse manager workload and span of control.
