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Issue Analysis
Nursing Retention and Recruitment in a Competitive Nursing Workforce
The current nursing shortage and the predicted crisis on the horizon can be linked to the issue of retention and recruitment and to the daily work environment of nurses. This shortage, whether generated through lack of funding, or lack of available skilled nurses, emphasizes the need for to build efficient nursing teams that reduce turnover and optimize patient outcomes. ...
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Canada is currently experiencing a wide spread nursing shortage that is projected to worsen in the coming decade. ... Lower quality nursing work environments have been linked to job dissatisfaction, burnout, and absenteeism in nurses and poorer health outcomes in patients, whereas high quality workplaces have been associated with increased job satisfaction, fewer nursing injuries, lower levels of emotional exhaustion, and better patient outcomes. The importance of high-quality nursing workplaces on nursing, patient, and system outcomes can positively affect nursing retention and recruitment. ... The nursing shortage has come about in part due to a series of government funding practices and consequent hospital budgeting strategies. ... Although some of this trend can be attributed to increased patient acuity, the relatively low wage of the RN and their versatility, allowed hospital administrators to use RNs for a wide range non-nursing duties (Meltz &Merzetti, 1988 as cited in Ross-Kerr & Wood, 2003). ... The results of these influences has left nursing units with a shortage of full-time staff, and an excess usage of part-time, casual and agency nurses. ... This decrease in quality of the work environment and job satisfaction directly results in decreased retention among nurses.
Decreased recruitment and retention is partially due to cultural myths about the nature of women’s character and their work; social class and family strategies about daughters’ educational career choices; and the sexual division of labour in the patriarchal health care system (Stuart, 1993 as cited in McIntyre& Thomlinson , 2003). With the increasing number of women in the workforce and with the increase of opportunities for women to fill traditional male career roles, there has been a decline in the nursing profession. ... Nurses are the largest part of the health care system but have not come together collectively to voice support for nursing leaders or for their professional organizations to change issues in the workplace. The concept of power is not generally associated with nursing since it is viewed by society to be a tradition role performed by women. ...
It is important to retain staff nurses within the organization of a hospital, as the turnover in nursing staff is expensive due to costs associated with recruitment and orientating nurses (Tang J.
Approximate Word count = 2062
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