Five Strategies to Improve Nurse Retention

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The role of nurses is extremely important for hospitals and other healthcare organizations. These professionals support and promote effective care delivery by providing direct care, treating patients' critical needs, and advocating for their health and wellbeing. Nurses spend a great amount of time with patients recording medical records and symptoms, providing medicines and treatments, and collaborating with care teams..

Unfortunately, many hospitals are struggling to retain skilled and talented nurses..

The costs of replacing nurses could be very expensive for hospitals and healthcare organizations..

Strategies to Improve Nurse Retention.

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Healthcare administrators need to make sure that their organization has the available resources to promote learning and career development..

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Studies indicate that there is a direct link between nurse residency programs and retention.

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Taking a moment to recognize and celebrate high performance and hard-working nurses greatly impacts employee engagement..

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Sometimes nurses experience disrespectful behaviors from physicians that do not appreciate the key role in the organization and refuse to treat them as colleagues (citation). This reduces the overall satisfaction of nurses and impact potentially impact their engagement..

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Lack of clear communication results in poor teamwork which directly impacts health outcome of patients..

References. Buchbinder, S. B., Shanks, N. H., & Kite, B. J. (2019). Introduction to Health Care Management. Jones & Bartlett Learning. Cornell, A. (2020, August 17). 5 Nurse Recruitment & Retention Strategies. Relias. Retrieved April 14, 2022, from https://www.relias.com/blog/5-nurse-retention-strategies.