Jason Upham
Stop the Revolving Door in a Busy Level II Trauma Emergency Department In 2018 the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected a need of an additional of 1.1 million nurses to be able to prevent further nursing shortage , Nursing staff turnover have huge influences on hospital direct cost such as recruitment, replacement, and orientation training. High turnover rate also impacts indirectly such as losses of productivity, team disruption, and patient outcomes. This presentation will provide the participants strategies and take a ways to improve your retention rate of staff that were effective in stopping the revolving door of losing valuable nurses. The strategies that will be shared in more depth included RN residency program, on-boarding orientation, teambuilding, A3 Lean projects, clinical ladder, flipping the department design plan upside down per staff request, empowerment ,new job roles, professional development, engaging staff in work life balance outings, improving collaboration, employee recognition, and many other strategies