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Nurse-Driven Insights: Understanding Frontline Nurses’ Information Preferences

Executive Summary

Nursing Catalyst research reveals key insights into how nurses consume and evaluate news about safe staffing and organizational changes. Professional nursing associations like AONL, ANA, and AACN emerge as the most trusted information sources, followed by workplace colleagues and direct managers. Staff particularly value testimonials from experienced nurses supported by real-world implementation examples, and prefer regular updates delivered through direct leadership channels, especially one-on-one conversations with supervisors and CNOs. Health systems can strengthen their safe staffing communications by equipping managers with evidence-based examples, increasing site-level CNO visibility, and building credibility through strategic partnerships with nursing associations to validate staffing initiatives with tangible implementation and outcomes data.

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