New Nurses
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Programs aimed at increasing nurse retention are important now, before an ease to the recession begins to mitigate a nursing shortage in the future.
Recruitment and Retention
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Predictors of Actual Turnover in a National Sample of Newly Licensed Registered Nurses Employed in Hospitals
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In order to reduce costly turnover among newly-licensed nurses, hospitals should work to improve job satisfaction and organizational commitment before nurses develop the desire to leave their jobs, and also work to reduce workplace injury.
Safe Patient-Handling Program "UPLIFTS" Nurse Retention
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A program that promotes nurse safety also can improve retention of older, more experienced nurses.
Reinventing Management Practices in Long-Term Care
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Lasting changes to organizational culture in nursing homes must come via gradual changes to the organizations' cultural artifacts.
Moving on, Up, or Out
November 2, 2009 | Journal Article
To improve retention of second- and third-year RNs, the researchers propose that an advanced residency program be developed to address the changing needs of RNs as they transition from school to the first year of practice and beyond.
TCAB in the Curriculum
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Nursing students need to be taught the guiding principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement program, from the first day of nursing school so that their entire education prepares them to work in a collaborative, adaptive environment centered on patient care, according to this article on curriculum and TCAB.
The Business Case for TCAB
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
Program Offers Disadvantaged Teens a Gateway to Health and Science Careers
September 2, 2009 | Journal Article
This article profiles the Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education, a program that helps low-income and minority high school students enter careers in science, medicine and technology.
North Carolina's Direct Care Workforce Development Journey
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This case study of Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce specifically focuses on the work of one coalition, the North Carolina Partner Team, which succeeded in bringing together competing stakeholder groups. The coalition's work eventually led to the 2006 passage of the North Carolina New Organization Vision Award.
The Nursing Career Process from Application Through the First 2 Years of Employment
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The documented current and future shortage of registered nurses (RNs) raises significant concerns about increasing the supply of new graduates from nursing degree programs. Using the best estimates available from nationally representative data, this article describes the attrition process form application to nursing school through the first two years of work.