Leveraging nursing strengths, listening to nursing needs: A keynote paper from the 2022 Emory University Business Case for Nursing Summit.

This keynote paper is the first installment in the six-part Nursing Outlook special edition based on the 2022 Emory University Business Case for Nursing Summit. The summit, which took place in March 2022, was led by Emory School of Nursing in partnership with Emory School of Business. It convened national nursing, health care, and business leaders to explore possible solutions to nursing workforce crises. Each of the summit's panels authored a paper in this special edition on their respective topic(s). Those topics included the growth, distribution, resilience, and value of the nursing workforce. As on the day of the event, the keynote frames the panelists' discussions by sharing nursing workforce trends, expert workforce insights, and data-informed questions to help promote dialogue in this series and beyond. • Written by the keynote speaker of the 2022 Emory Business Case for Nursing Summit. • Provides context for the Business Case for Nursing special edition. • Discusses important strengths of the nursing workforce. • Highlights continued nursing workforce needs. • Recommends ways to invest in nursing & leverage nursing strengths moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]