Study: Why nurses stay, why they leave
Editor's Note This study by nurse researchers at Pennsylvania-based Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, and Waynesburg University, finds how a stay interview affords nurse leaders a way to find out why nurses stay or leave. After implementing a tool kit, nurse leaders conducted 75 stay interviews with cardiothoracic telemetry and cardiothoracic…
Meaningful recognition as a strategy to retain nurses
Editor's Note This study, led by nurse researchers at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, finds that meaningful recognition (ie, thanking or acknowledging someone in a way that is valuable to them) can be a strategy to retain nurses, but one size does not fit all. A survey…
Study: Decisions by retirement-age nurses to continue working
Editor's Note This study by nurse researchers at Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, finds that passion for patient care dominates decisions by retirement-age nurses to continue working. The analysis included data from 49 nurses in eight focus groups. The nurses ranged in age from 54 to 75 years…
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