Solutions for your Nursing Retention Problem (Part 2)
By: Allison Rein
In blog post 1, we examined our top recommendations to support nursing retention initiatives within hospitals. In this post, we aim to delve deeper into the issue and go beyond the surface level of the top three initiatives. We will explore initiatives that may have a cost, or significant amount of time associated with them in order to implement.
As a reminder, our primary recommendations from the previous blog were:
Connecting leaders with frontline clinicians
Setting up peer-to-peer and leadership-to-clinician recognition systems
Improved communication of initiatives
We believe hospitals should implement these prior to considering the recommendations to follow. That is because the primary recommendations are easy to implement, have a low cost associated to them, and are highly likely to have tangible impact, as they are not solely research based, but are also things clinicians specifically ask for. However, that is not to say that the secondary recommendations do not have merit:
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