Nurse Retention And Nurse Retentiontisfaction

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The concept of nurse retention as it relates to employee satisfaction is a critical issue to manage before any nursing theory can be deployed. The problem of nurse retention and staffing can impact the numbers of medication errors, patient mortality, readmissions, a length of stay, falls, pressure ulcers, central line infections, health care related infections as well as costs (Simpson, 2016, p 139). The nursing satisfaction and appropriate staffing have cause and effect results with the ability for a facility to retain the nursing staff in place. Failure to maintain the nursing staff leads to increase training costs, overtime, fatigue with current staff and safety issues when staff falls below par.
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This further aggravates the nursing issue as the lack of physicians only drains the over taxed nursing staff into a larger unsatisfied state.
The antecedents of the nurse retention and satisfaction problem may include the days of fewer patients, more staffing and the population of less acute patients. The addition of technology lengthened life spans, and consumer savvy health care may make the issue of nurse retention and satisfaction more prevalent in today’s healthcare market. The Ana, as well as other agencies, promote and mandate reporting of staffing, preventable infections, sentinel events and other issues related to poor patient outcomes that make the issue more transparent (Simpson, 2016).
The consequences are increased patient mortality, increased complications, decreased job satisfaction and nurse burnout with the lack of staffing from poor nurse retention (Jones, 2014). The lack of staffing lead to areas of care that must be omitted to compensate for the lack of staff available which leads to decreased nursing and patient satisfaction (Jones, 2014). This dissatisfaction then leads to a departure to a more adequately staffed safer care environment that only perpetuates the cycle of poor retention and satisfaction. One study reported a six percent increase in the risk of death for patients with staffing shortages (Hairr, Salisbury, Johannsson & Vance,

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