Finding and Keeping Great Nurses
Is your organization having trouble Finding and Keeping Great Nurses?
Have you ever felt that you have found the perfect candidate at interview only to be disappointed after you hire them?
Do you find your dream candidate, invest in their development, and then they leave for the competition?
These are familiar problems for many of you reading this and ones that are not going to go away anytime in the near future. In order to recruit and retain great nurses and other healthcare workers it is necessary to adopt new approaches and attitudes and even look outside healthcare for inspiration.
When nurses were asked what issues they would tackle first if they were a CNO 39% said retention, 37% said staffing and only 13% said salaries1.
Visioning HealthCare has partnered with Brannick HR Connections to present a variety of new approaches to help you to address these problems. We believe that investing time in the people you hire from the very first moment you meet them at interview will help you to move away from the never ending spiral of recruitment costs and retention problems.
Finding Great Nurses:
As the recruitment pool for nurses and care assistants grows smaller many organizations are tempted to employ the first candidate who walks through the door, as long as they have the correct qualifications and have the appropriate clearances. Very little time is taken to consider if this person is a good fit for the unit and whether their views are aligned to those of the organization. We offer a variety of seminars to help you to:
• Find employees who are an organizational fit
• Profile your ideal employee
• Identify trends and best practices in ‘on line’ recruiting
• Conduct the ‘Ultimate Interview’
• Introduce effective peer interviewing to your organization
Keeping Great Nurses and Care Assistants:
There are many financial incentives being used to entice healthcare staff to organizations but these provide only short term fixes that cause nurses to ‘job hop’ between different facilities and prevent teams developing. Our approach is not financial, but is focused instead on investing in your staff in other ways, giving them the opportunity to grow and develop within your organization, and empowering them to have a voice in how and what (above core competencies) they learn.
The importance of effective leadership is considered crucial in your retention efforts not only in your staff’s development, but in removing the culture where nurses ‘eating their young’ cause you to loose many good staff.
We have over 20 years experience in implementing innovative approaches to recruitment and retention and are able to work with you and your organization to help reduce your staff turnover. We can also tailor programs that address your individual organizations needs.
Two of our approaches to assist with staff retention include:
- Using Reflective Practice and Action Learning Sets in Staff Growth and Development. This one day program will provide you with our unique Framework for Reflection© tool and a ‘Start-up Kit’ to setting up and facilitating Action Learning Sets.
- Using Preceptorship and Mentoring in Supporting Staff in Your Organization. This one day program on preceptorship and mentoring is based upon an easy to use approach combining different communication styles with a competency framework that enables you to individualize your approach to the staff you precept or mentor.
If you would like more information about our recruitment and retention services or would like to speak to one of our consultants, please call us on 1-877-823-4310 or email info@visioninghealthcare.com.
1. Carrol P. (2007) The‘Need’ to Nurse. Advance for Nurses, Dec.24. vol.8. no.27. pp 14-15