Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025
Additional notes on engagement Recent independent studies confirm survey findings and add further context across the workforce spectrum: Overall. Engagement is a general healthcare struggle with one-third of health care workers registering low engagement levels. 1 Nursing. AMN Healthcare’s recently conducted nursing pulse survey found “prevalent” job dissatisfaction. Buttressing the claim was the 55% of respondents saying they were very or somewhat likely to change jobs in the near term. 2 Physicians. Culture plays a central role in engaging doctors and enlisting them as partners for change. One physician survey identified four leading steps to improve their employer’s cultural health 3 :
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Maintaining a positive atmosphere
Committing to work-life balance for physicians and staff
Attending to how management treats staff
Consulting physicians on organizational and policy decisions
Leadership. Leadership must examine its own engagement. One cross-industry study revealed that employees regard only 59% of leaders as actively engaged, and over half are likely to leave if their leadership exhibits consistent disengagement (Figure 9) . 4
55% OF EMPLOYEES ARE LIKELY TO LEAVE IF LEADERS APPEAR CONSISTENTLY DISENGAGED
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32%: Neither Likely Nor Unlikely 33%: Likely 8%: Unlikely 5%: Very Unlikely
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Figure 9
1 Press Ganey, “Employee Experience in Healthcare 2024,” July 2024. 2 AMN Healthcare, “Nurses in 2024: A Brief Check-In,” May 2024.
3 Medscape, “Seeking an Energizing Environment: Medscape Physician Workplace Culture Report 2024," August 2024. 4 Nectar, ““Employees Say Only 59% of Leaders are Actively Engaged. Could This be Undermining Your Company’s Success?” November 6, 2024.
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