As a senior sister and clinical mentor I will ensure that all nurses are taught in an environment that is conducive for learning and consideration will be given to individual abilities. My experience as a mentor in different hospitals in London gave me the opportunity to appreciate the diversities in learning styles. This, I am sure will be of great benefit to your hospital both at an academic and clinical level.…
In reference to hospitals across the U.S, there has always been a shortage of nurses, however they always seemed to work themselves out. Meaning the hospitals would have a certain period of time when they weren’t so low on nurses. It wasn’t until 1998 that things seemed to get worse. The baby boomers were set to retire in 2008, but because of the recent recession they were forced to continue to work. In the years to come, the baby boomers will eventually began their retirement and need more medical care. Add on the amount of years they have been working plus the work load, the job as a nurse really has taken a toll on the bodies. What the current healthcare industry doesn’t realize is that experienced nurses will be leaving the industry. The reason behind the nursing shortage is that no one can precisely pin point causes. With the addition of managed care and other elements, these maybe the reasons for the nursing shortage. Renfrey Memorial Hospital is just one of many…
It does a facility no good to hire enough nurses to work the floor if all of those nurses are going to leave their positions within a year of being hired. Too often, nurses get burnt out quickly from the stress of the job, the long hours, and the work load from having inadequate staffing. Bob Dent, a writer for Nursing Economic$, wrote his article, “Nine Principles for Improved Nurse Staffing” about how to include nurses into the solution and make sure that they are satisfied. One of his steps is to include nurses in the staffing process by creating a Nurse Staffing Advisory Counsel (NSAC) that has frontline nurses working on it. It also has members of management and infection control on the counsel so that there is plenty of representation…
Jones, C., Gates, M., (September 30, 2007) "The Costs and Benefits of Nurse Turnover: A Business Case for Nurse Retention" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Vol. 12 No. 3, Manuscript 4. DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol12No03Man04…
The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators identifies voluntary nurse turnovers as one of the indicators impacting nursing care. This data base was established by the American Nurses Association to improve quality and safety in the workplace. The data collected helps provide research and compares the data to the impact it has on nurses providing care and the outcomes it has on patients. Nurse turnovers occur for many different reasons and seem to come in waves depending on what the nurses reasoning is. Many patient care facilities worldwide experience issues with nurse turnover rates fluctuating up and down. No one solution has been derived when it comes…
Nursing retention of the experienced nurse is a common problem in many acute care hospitals. With the recent increase in nursing graduates and, there is still expected to be a nursing shortage of 260, 000 nurses between 2018 and 2025 (Buerhaus, Auerbach & Staiger, 2009, p. 663). The financial impact related to nurse turnover is astronomical; the cost of replacing a nurse costs anywhere between $42,000 and $64,000 dollars (Lynn & Redman, 2005). To properly stabilize staffing in order to operate a high-reliability organization and provide high-quality and safe patient care it is imperative to retain the nursing staff. Nurse retention is more important than ever before with the constantly changing healthcare environment.…
Politically speaking, mentoring truly matters in nursing because the relationship that is created between the new graduates with their mentors provides positive feedback and is indeed a great investment in the health care. On the long run, confident nurses improve the overall health outcome of the system as a whole as well as patients' health, which naturally leads to reduction of fiscal spending on patient's readmission into hospitals and less occurrence of medical errors.…
CNA predicts that this shortage will rise to approximately 60,000 by the year 2022 (CNA, 2013). The shortage in nurses’ workforce directly affects the population and health care system as nurses play an unique role in maintaining a high-quality health care system and meeting the health needs of the population. Also, the public’s confidence in Canadian health care system rests on maintaining its confidence in health providers; and a shortage in nurses has a potential impact on the quality of care, which directly affects on this confidence (Advisory committee on health human resources, 2000). So, the increasing health needs of the population require the availability of an effective, productive and sustainable health workforce (Price et al, 2013). One-third of the entire Canadian healthcare workforce consists of regulated nursing profession and because of the high number of nurses in the system, it has been suggested that “as nurses goes, so goes the rest of the system” (CNAC, 2002). Hence, Canada’s policy makers, decision makers, educational organizations, professional associations and or colleges, employers and others can start addressing the shortage of RNs right now. So, this paper proposes that healthcare delivery system requires the enhancement of effective, productive and sustainable nursing workforce to address the global issue of nursing shortage; moreover, this paper will argue that the failure to focus on retention of nurses is a critical factor contributing to the nurses’…
To become a registered nurse, you go through grueling training and studying. It takes time, effort, dedication, a couple breakdowns, and calling. It would be assumed that an individual going through all of this struggle and work to get those two influential letters behind their name would never think to turn away from the profession once finally achieving the role that such commitment was given to. Unfortunately, no one can prepare an eager R.N. graduate for the journey they are about to take. It comes down to the individual and their evaluation and interpretation of factors that lessen their motivation and task value in the profession they only thought would bring satisfaction and gratitude. Many nurses quit each year for numerous reasons to the point that nursing retention ideas…
Kerfoot, K. (2015). Four Measures that Are Key to Retaining Nurses. Hospitals and Healthcare Network.…
The atmosphere that the nurses work in are at times described as one of inappropriate skill-mix, low nurse to patient ratios; a lack of involvement in decision making; managing constant changes; issues with shift work; leave and pay; and increased patient expectations. Such problems add upon the workloads and stress levels of nurses leaving them feeling undervalued with a loss of interest to continue. Recent findings show a 1 to 1.4 % per month nurse attrition rate in just one state (New South Wales). High rates of nursing attrition where staff willingly leave or transfer between positions in nursing, or leave completely for another profession is an important priority for the health system for a range of reasons. Firstly, attrition is costly, estimating at $16,634 per nurse in Australia. Secondly, attrition affects the roles, morals and the stress levels of remaining staff that successively affects upon nurse productivity.…
Why are we having a nurse shortage? Part of the reason for this is an increased difficulty for new nurses to get educated, specialized and skilled nurses are in high demand and there is no streamlined process for getting new students the education necessary to fill these gaps in employment. In addition, there are no long term solutions for keeping the new nurses, there are plenty of incentives when you are first hired, but the burnout rate is going up because there are shrinking numbers of people to help the new nurse…
The familiar phrase of overworked and under appreciated has rang through the nursing field. As health care reform and insurances make critical changes, nurses are forced to keep up. Nursing managers are in a bind to meet the new budget cuts and criteria set forth by these changes, which includes higher patient to nurse ratios. Low staffing can lead to nurse burnout, job dissatisfaction and poor staff retention (International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2014). This article will outline some issues at hand with unsafe staffing ratios and the legislative actions regarding this matter.…
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the causes of nurse turnover and shortage, find out ways nurse leaders and managers may resolve this problem, and also to discuss the writer’s own personal and professional philosophy of nursing regarding this issue.…
For centuries nurses have saved lives and nurtured thousands back to health. Nurses are a vitally important part of the hospital and without them the health care system would be a catastrophe. Gordon also states, “I can't stress enough how unappreciated nurses and their assistants are, they are the foundation on which the hospital rests”. Hospitals wouldn't run as smoothly as they do without them. Nurses are so important although they are often overlooked. The nursing shortage is finally bringing their importance to the light.…