Sunday, June 17, 2007
The research topic for my thesis discusses shift length and RN job satisfaction. Many articles and RN surveys have different results on which workplace elements provide true job satisfaction leading to nursing retention. Your input, thoughts and any known research at your own institution would be appreciated.
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Job satisfaction is the key; with the impending retirement of the aging baby boomers hospitals need to come up with ways to retain our experienced aging staff. Their experience is so valuable to the next generation of nurses. Good mentoring is what helps develop new nurses into confident professionals. Nursing is the key to health care; with improvement in staff satisfaction the effect would only be positive and this would improve the way we practice.
We need to find a way to keep the experienced nurses, perhaps even shorter 4-6 hours shifts. If we cannot retine dthe experienced nurses, who will teach the new nurses?
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