Staff Satisfaction / Turnover

[NurseyPoo7]

My unit has had a large amount of turnover recently and it seems we have quite a bit of unsatisfied staff. Unfortunately, I seem to have been labeled a Negative Nancy, as I am one of the few people who have expressed my frustrations to management and apparently, I am one of the very few who has done this.

Been thinking about suggesting the unit do their own anonymous "staff satisfaction" survey. Has anyone else's facility done anything else to gauge or fix staff satisfaction ??

[DixieRedHead, ASN, RN]

If a manager, or management is so out of touch with the staff that they don't know what the problems are and are doing nothing to address them, nothing is going to change because it's put on a piece of paper.

[nicurn001]

These staff satisfaction surveys are simply cosmetics . They are meant to make the reality of what is beneath appear wonderful to the viewer , whilst nothing has to be done to change the reality below .If the real problems were addressed then those administrators would have to admit to the poor jobs they had been doing and heaven forbid their empires / budgets may be decimated .

[LVNBSN2]

To quote a previous poster: "If you identify a problem, you ARE the problem."

Really? How so?

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i doubt the manager has as much power to fix things as you might think. the unit manager is caught between her staff and her boss -- and most of her job consists of attempting to make the unpalatable somehow acceptable to the staff. it's being stuck between a rock and a hard place.