What retention strategies do your hospitals use???

lee1 · Oct 26, 2002

"People in our hospital system have lost their jobs and been slandered by the company for attempting to organize a union. It has been a big stink. The company fights it too hard. I figure anything they fight so hard must be good for us!!!"

You and your peers need a union pronto. Now is a great time to get one in. How many jobs can they afford to lose now?? NONE.

Maybe even a nice letter to the editor of the local paper and tell the paper you cannot sign it as it might mean your jobs, that is how bad things can be. HEY, or give a phony name if you cannot do that. What do you think, they will check on it???

Bermuda · Oct 26, 2002

What I can't figure out is that the hospital will pay agency $42/hr to work and they sign a contract 13 weeks full-time and yet you carry a ba--buster assignment daily and then come 3pm they send 2 nurses home because we had a few discharges God forbid we should have a bit of an easy day minus a patient or two. Then of course the agency nurse is still there..why do they not pay us the bigger $$$ and we are all in house and can do the JOB? Yet... they allow us to leave but will hire a new grad in your place for $19/hr no experience and there you go 20 years experience but you cost more $$ so they let you go? ????? v Viscious circle... :confused:

lee1 · Oct 27, 2002

Originally posted by Bermuda
What I can't figure out is that the hospital will pay agency $42/hr to work and they sign a contract 13 weeks full-time and yet you carry a ba--buster assignment daily and then come 3pm they send 2 nurses home because we had a few discharges God forbid we should have a bit of an easy day minus a patient or two. Then of course the agency nurse is still there..why do they not pay us the bigger $$$ and we are all in house and can do the JOB? Yet... they allow us to leave but will hire a new grad in your place for $19/hr no experience and there you go 20 years experience but you cost more $$ so they let you go? ????? v Viscious circle...

Why don't you confront your so called leadership and ASK them these same questions. Demand responses from THEM, just as they demand from you. We are all adults. Even though you may feel intimidated your leadership must be holding monthly or quarterly at least meetings with staff such as a RN forum or something similar where the VP of nursing meets with staff on the day shift and possibly the evening shift. Questions can still be framed in a nice manner. If the answers are vague then try to insist that they answer the questions, afterall, they really don't deliberately want to lose their experienced nurses, now do they???? Ask them even that.

ANnot4me · Oct 27, 2002

I work in one of those new grad nurse mills. It's like the place has a revolving door. They take nurse satisfaction surveys only to waste time and money to rebut our issue point by point. They also say "people leave here to pursue other goals" or whatever. The fact of the matter is that people do their year and leave. If the place was a great place to work people would stay. I would certainly go out of my way to keep a job that I really enjoyed. Instead I prostitute myself for the money. I'm not saying I don't care or that I don't do my best, I just comprise my beliefs and self-respect for money.

caroladybelle, BSN, RN · Oct 27, 2002

Whattttttttt???

You mean hospitals are trying to retain nurses????

I haven't seen any evidence.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

lee1 · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by caroladybelle
Whattttttttt???

You mean hospitals are trying to retain nurses????

I haven't seen any evidence.

:eek:

Well then I guess they are not concerned with their own outcomes !!!

very short sighted and many pounds foolish.

what is wrong with these people

lee1 · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by caroladybelle
Whattttttttt???

You mean hospitals are trying to retain nurses????

I haven't seen any evidence.

:eek:

Well then I guess they are not concerned with their own outcomes !!!

very short sighted and many pounds foolish.

what is wrong with these people

shannonRN, BSN, RN · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by lee1
Would like to know what kind of RETENTION programs your hospitals are using????

nothing, nada, zip, zilch....it seems like we are loosing staff daily. we have lost almost half of our hospital based resource to better playing hospitals in the area. okay i guess their idea of retention would be the $5 dollars an hour extra when you pick up extra shifts. if you already at full time, this adds on to your time and a half. who wants to work extra when in doing so you will only make the 3rd nurse on for that shift?

haven't you heard...you are worth more to another company than you are to your own...i get it all the time. it's a load of phoey if you ask me. :rolleyes:

shannonRN, BSN, RN · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by lee1
Would like to know what kind of RETENTION programs your hospitals are using????

nothing, nada, zip, zilch....it seems like we are loosing staff daily. we have lost almost half of our hospital based resource to better playing hospitals in the area. okay i guess their idea of retention would be the $5 dollars an hour extra when you pick up extra shifts. if you already at full time, this adds on to your time and a half. who wants to work extra when in doing so you will only make the 3rd nurse on for that shift?

haven't you heard...you are worth more to another company than you are to your own...i get it all the time. it's a load of phoey if you ask me. :rolleyes:

lee1 · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by shannonRN
nothing, nada, zip, zilch....it seems like we are loosing staff daily. we have lost almost half of our hospital based resource to better playing hospitals in the area. okay i guess their idea of retention would be the $5 dollars an hour extra when you pick up extra shifts. if you already at full time, this adds on to your time and a half. who wants to work extra when in doing so you will only make the 3rd nurse on for that shift?

haven't you heard...you are worth more to another company than you are to your own...i get it all the time. it's a load of phoey if you ask me.

I wonder if you can accuse hospitals of misuse of public funds for NOT being more aggressive with retention programs???? I wonder how much money they are spending on recruitment, recruitment????? After all it does cost money to constantly precept, train new people

lee1 · Oct 31, 2002

Originally posted by shannonRN
nothing, nada, zip, zilch....it seems like we are loosing staff daily. we have lost almost half of our hospital based resource to better playing hospitals in the area. okay i guess their idea of retention would be the $5 dollars an hour extra when you pick up extra shifts. if you already at full time, this adds on to your time and a half. who wants to work extra when in doing so you will only make the 3rd nurse on for that shift?

haven't you heard...you are worth more to another company than you are to your own...i get it all the time. it's a load of phoey if you ask me.

I wonder if you can accuse hospitals of misuse of public funds for NOT being more aggressive with retention programs???? I wonder how much money they are spending on recruitment, recruitment????? After all it does cost money to constantly precept, train new people

Gotalovethekids · Oct 31, 2002

My hospital has wonderful recruitment stratigies but not much for retention! The hospital provides a FULL scholarship (books, room & board, Tuition) to nursing students enrolled in Nursing classes if you agree to work for them for 1 year for each year of the scholarship....WELL, sounds good but there are a lots of strings attached OF COURSE! This also means that this May the healthcare system (hospital, nursing homes, home health, and other clinics) hired 30+ new grads. I WAS ONE OF THEM!!!! :) However I have already noticed that they aren't doing much to keep the others on an administration level. My unit manager is an exception though, she's wonderful!!! Plus they hired an RN with almost 20 years experience at almost the same pay as the new grads on our floor. I feel horrible for her!!! So, needless to say most of the grads work off thier scholarship, get a year or two of experience and HIT THE ROAD...I may be one of them when my two years are up!

Just my hospital's program!

Sarah