Fisher Phillips Attorney on President Biden's Vaccine Mandate and Impact on Healthcare Industry

In an interview with Healthcare Finance, Alexa Hanlon weighs in on the impact federal vaccine mandates will have on the healthcare sector. "I think [saying] a causal factor [of the labor shortage] is the vaccine mandate is certainly an over-exaggeration," Alexa says. She adds that burnout is having a larger impact on talent retention. "We are seeing shortages because of nurse burnout, healthcare worker burnout," she says. "At first [they were] inundated with cases and struggling to understand the virus also from a scientific standpoint. And then I think that's only compounded and exacerbated now by many abuses and mistreatment of healthcare workers by patients. And so… as a whole, nurse burnout and the nursing shortage is because they are facing mistreatment and abuse by their patients."

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