Retention of nurses

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What must be done to help with the problem of retaining experienced nurses?:uhoh21: In the department that I work in we are always recruiting because we can not retain. I would love your suggestions.

I am not picking on registry nurses, but at the fact that hospitals need them at all. If hospitals treated their staff well(this includes the techs, secretaries,RT's etc) then there wouldn't be this big "them against us" thing. I don't have a problem with the NURSES themselves(Except the bad ones, which we have on staff as well). I hope this point gets across. I might want to work registry if conditions don't improve in my hospital!
I agree:)
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I am not picking on registry nurses, but at the fact that hospitals need them at all. If hospitals treated their staff well(this includes the techs, secretaries,RT's etc) then there wouldn't be this big "them against us" thing. I don't have a problem with the NURSES themselves(Except the bad ones, which we have on staff as well). I hope this point gets across. I might want to work registry if conditions don't improve in my hospital!

Working conditions are the exact reason I decided to work registry. It goes back to your point in your original post - why we stay where we are treated badly. Because it is really no better at the hospital down the street. The best we can do for ourselves, really, is registry. It takes us out of the politics (sort of) and gets us a little more money.

Unfortunately, it also tends to lead to some hard feelings from the staff nurses. It breeds a resentment of sorts. Even if the staff are really upset at administration, retaliation is often directed at the nurses themselves (not saying you are like this - just that it happens). One thing I commonly see is registry nurses getting the WORST assignments in existence because they are being "paid so much more" to be there. Ha - I wish.

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American nurses should form registries city by city. Force the hospitals to staff from the registry...at OUR RATES and CONDITIONS. All violations to our conditions will result in the hospital having to pay more to use the registry. No more BS, poor treatment, politics. Nurses should collectively force a ban on importing nurses and create this registry pool. (Sci-fi...I know...but we can dream, right?):chuckle The hospitals would be having to perform to keep the registry fees affordable to them (ie: meeting conditions)

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I am wondering if registry is what I call agency?

My facility finally has done away with agency totally they have hired adequate staff and are now 8 months without using agency at all.

I worked agency for about 7 years and It served me well, I just happened to get my RN and go on staff about the time they quit using agency whcih has served me well also.

Here is a wierd phenomenon to me though, we use contract services for things such as Dieticians and food service, and our Dialysis units both acute and chronic are contracted, this doesn't make much sense to me, I mean the facility obviously owns the equipment so why would you contract the labor?

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American nurses should form registries city by city. Force the hospitals to staff from the registry...at OUR RATES and CONDITIONS. All violations to our conditions will result in the hospital having to pay more to use the registry. No more BS, poor treatment, politics. Nurses should collectively force a ban on importing nurses and create this registry pool. (Sci-fi...I know...but we can dream, right?):chuckle The hospitals would be having to perform to keep the registry fees affordable to them (ie: meeting conditions)

So this would be like nationalized union? It sounds like a pretty feasible solution. Perhaps the State to State Nursing Organizations should unite on this type issue and try to bring about such a union. It would all begin with US. We would all from every state need to join our collective Nursing Organizations and probabaly ANA as well and begin a letter writing campaign. If all 50 states and the ANA were inundated by the entire work force with letters with this like minded proposal they could not possibly ignore it forever. We would first need to unite as a profession and make it known to all the nurses in our areas that we are attempting to make a difference.

If every nurse that comes to allnurses told every nurse they work with and then began facility wide meetings to make this known it could be done!

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So this would be like nationalized union? It sounds like a pretty feasible solution. Perhaps the State to State Nursing Organizations should unite on this type issue and try to bring about such a union. It would all begin with US. We would all from every state need to join our collective Nursing Organizations and probabaly ANA as well and begin a letter writing campaign. If all 50 states and the ANA were inundated by the entire work force with letters with this like minded proposal they could not possibly ignore it forever. We would first need to unite as a profession and make it known to all the nurses in our areas that we are attempting to make a difference.

If every nurse that comes to allnurses told every nurse they work with and then began facility wide meetings to make this known it could be done!

We could do it...it would be better for American nurses. Our own healthcare insurance, 401K, malpractice, the works....
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I would like to know what the % of nurses leaving a hospital is, the turnover rate. I have worked at companies that would not pay well because they said "where else are they going to work". Perhaps the 2 main reasons that hospitals treat their nurses so bad, in general, are 1. the nurses have nowhere else to go to work within driving distance of their home and 2. nursing is traditionally a female occupation. Traditionally women will put up with more than a man will and management knows it. Until the total cost of retraining nurses exceeds the cost of retention bonuses there will be no retention bonusus.

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morale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this the reason we as a profession can not band together, or the reason that faciities won't give retention bonuses

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