Redesigning the Frontline: How Leading Health Systems Are Transforming the Nurse Manager Role


Redesigning the Frontline: How Leading Health Systems Are Transforming the Nurse Manager Role

National benchmarks reveal a hidden workload crisis. We’re here to show you how high-performing health systems are using the data to redesign the nurse manager role and drive real results.

Here’s the problem: For every 8-hour shift, the average frontline nurse leader is responsible for completing more than 24 hours of work. Most health systems still measure manager workload by headcount alone, missing pilots, risk management, committee responsibilities, staffing instability, and more. The result: the leaders at greatest risk go unidentified until it's too late.

This session is designed for CNOs, VPs of Nursing, nursing executives, and workforce and HR leaders who are navigating manager retention, care quality, and sustainable span of control. If you've ever wondered whether your managers are set up to succeed or simply set up to burn out, you’ll leave with the language, the data, and the roadmap to make the case for change internally.

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Here’s What You'll Learn When You Register to Attend:

  • National benchmarks across 20 span of control variables. You’ll learn where the greatest workload burden actually lives and how your health system compares to peers nationwide.

  • The profile of managers at highest burnout risk. Understand why the leaders most likely to leave are often the ones most critical to your strategic priorities, and you’ll learn how to identify them before it's too late.

  • Practical levers for rightsizing the manager role. From structural redesign to targeted operational support, we’ll share what's actually working in health systems today.

  • We’ll review a case study we compiled from one of our health system members and uncover what worked from data to measurable change. Now you can use Nursing Catalyst benchmarking data to make the case for change and drive improvements in manager experience and unit outcomes.

This session is designed for CNOs, VPs of Nursing, nursing executives, and workforce and HR leaders who are navigating manager retention, care quality, and sustainable span of control. If you've ever wondered whether your managers are set up to succeed or simply set up to burn out, you’ll leave with the language, the data, and the roadmap to make the case for change internally.

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About The Health Management Academy

Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.

We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.

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