Lowest turnover specialty

Published

I want to ask everyone here what they consider the lowest turnover specialty to be.

Where staff stake their tent, and stick around for a good long while.

I equate low turnover to = high job satisfaction.

On the top of my head, I am thinking L&D, or NICU. Certainly not Med/Surg or ER.

Which is the dream unit/specialty that generally yields the highest satisfaction?

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

The Fertility Clinic has a revolving door for staff

Had a coworker who was looking into doing a fertility clinic job. She interviewed at a few places -- the amount of after-hours work and call that was involved just freaked her out. You were expected to do 8-10 hour days in clinic and then to take the doctor's phone home with you to be available to answer patient questions 24/7. No thank you!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med/Surg/ICU/Stepdown.

I can't say which has the lowest, but I can tell you where I hear the most burnout: Med/Surg, ICU, CCU, and Rehab. Lots of patients, lots of illness, lots of loss, and not enough support.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

At our hospital it is LD, NICU, PACU and OR

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

I'm in ophthalmology, fairly new to the dept, but the staff that is here is very long term--we're talking 30+ years!

My hospital can't keep OR staff despite doing paid education courses to work there (five months for both new grads and experienced staff).

Opthamology and ENT seem to keep their staff as does our outpatients department.

The Fertility Clinic has a revolving door for staff

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.

At my last facility, it was postpartum, Radiology, and one of the inpatient GI clinics. One of my friends, who currently work on one of the stepdown floors, applied to the GI clinic and was told they had something like 40 internal applicants for a few positions. Yikes!

My mother works postpartum, and she recently said they were shocked, they hardly had any nurses apply for new grad spots on her unit in her community teaching hospital. Turnover is something like one nurse every 5 years.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I know the nurse manager of an outpatient psych clinic. There are 6 nurses who work there. The manager has been there almost 30 years. The newest nurse he hired was 12 years ago.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Nursing Informatics is one opportunity that does not have frequent openings. And, is a great field!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Our hospital is probably employee health. As for the varying inpatients and EDs it is by far the float pool. (The OR and PACU is so separate that I really don't know). However, we have had 8 month waiting lists for the float pool. I just transferred there in March and absolutely love it. However, our boss is the best in the house, which could have to do with it too.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

Infusion services. At least around here. You have to wait for someone to die (or retire, which doesn't happen often) to find an open position. And when you do, you better snap it up.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

What about oncology? Specifically peds oncology. It seems like its either for you or its not....and if you have a heart for peds oncology, you never leave.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Inpatient Oncology/Public Health.

Yeah, not my floor(Onc,Med/Surg). We have huge turnover. There are management issues but the work itself is just freaking draining. I don't care how great a manager, pay, benefits, etc, I'm not going to be happy running flat out with many patients, several confused, several young people dying of cancer.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Pediatrics.

NICU/L&D. You've got to wait for someone to retire in order to get in on some of these units.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion