Right now having a full and consistent nursing staff has probably never been easier, thanks to the current economic drivers masking over the nursing shortage you are probably seeing the benefit being nurses that are more than willing to pick up an extra shift, great older nurses are hanging around a little longer and your internal float pool is overflowing. The challenge now is to manage that situation and take full advantage of the opportunities it gives you and your hospital to address some areas that normally cause nurse turnover and burnout. Some things you can do to fully utilize this time are:
- Improve your nurse retention efforts
- Develop future nursing leaders
- Evaluate unit processes and build teamwork among nurses
- Improve as a nursing leader
- Put more recognition efforts in place
- Improve the participation of the nurses in your units in the decision-making process
- Find ways to establish professional growth opportunities
- None of these initiatives have to cost a lot of money if they are done with some imagination. Here are some resources for each area:
Improve your nurse retention efforts
Use mentors to improve nurse retention
Improving Nurse Retention in Jordanian Public Hospitals: Discussion
Develop future nursing leaders
Transformational Nursing Leadership
Evaluate unit processes and Build teamwork among nurses
Quality work environments for nurse and patient safety
Building a Collaborative Nursing Practice to Promote Patient Education: An Inpatient and Outpatient Partnership
Improve yourself as a nursing leader
Nursing leadership
Leadership and nursing care management
What leadership styles should senior nurses develop?
Put more recognition efforts in place
Five Tips for Effective Employee Recognition: How to Reward, Recognize, Award, and Thank People Successfully
Improve the participation of the nurses in your units in the decision-making process
Evidenced Based Nursing
Find ways to establish professional growth opportunities
NurseLearn
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