Nursing Problem - Nursing Turnover

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Nursing Turnover

A crucial issue facing the profitability and the entire performance of the healthcare organizations in our contemporary society is the increased nursing turnover rates. A highly committed, well-trained and stable nursing staff is essential for a healthcare organization to disseminate efficient levels of patient care (Duffe, 1976, p. 32). Losing a single nurse has a financial implication of a loss of an annual accumulated salary of the nurse. Nursing turnover has negative implications for the healthcare organizations such as decreased quality of patient care, an increase in staffing costs, and loss of patients among others.

Due to the adverse impacts of nursing turnover, there is need for implementing strategies to reduce an entirely stop the turnover rates. There are four proposed techniques to reduce and prevent the nursing turnover rates. The methods are increasing the nursing candidates’ number, making nursing profession more attractive, screening out candidates for nursing based on job fit and improving the techniques utilized to manage hired nurses and

Proposed solutions to Nursing Turnover

1. Increasing the number of applicants pursuing nursing

The primary reason for the increased nursing turnover rates is due to the small number of qualified nurses in the entire labor market. The scarcity boosts the job opportunities and due to the increased options, nurses are likely to quit and venture elsewhere (Johnson, 1960, p. 43). The phenomenon also increases turnover costs to the company since it’s hard to fill the vacancy of the nurses who quit.

Healthcare organizations can support activities to increase nursing candidates so as to boost the labor market. Community outreach programs can be conducted to motivate students to pursue a nursing career. Additionally, nursing students can be given educational scholarships that are mostly suited for students working for a healthcare organization for a limited time. Educational support can also be accorded to non-nursing employees to aid them to get nursing degrees. Efforts like these should also engage in lobbying the government to investing coming up with new nursing schools.

Challenges

The major challenge to this venture of increasing nursing candidates is that the efforts need more time and resources than that required to run a healthcare organization.

Solutions

As a result, it is necessary for the programs and funding to be initiated early so as to help in educational scholarships, government lobbying, and community outreach programs. Such programs if undertaken can lead to an expansion of healthcare organization and the health industry in particular.

1. Making nursing jobs more appealing

In the contemporary society, the healthcare companies must do all it take to lure qualified nursing candidate to apply for jobs in their companies.  When evaluating a job opportunity, the nursing candidates always reflect on the location of the job, time and duration of work, salary and remuneration, and the prospects of gaining experience and knowledge in the workplace (Stokowski, 2014). Based on the hands-on nature of the nursing profession, most companies find little to do to make the jobs attractive.

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