Nurse Turnover

Benchmark-Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management

Nursing Shortage and Nurse Turn-over Nursing shortage is the main issue result in nurse turnover. This is very real in now a day. According to Booyens 64% of turnover can be avoidable but organizations failed to keep the employee. However 36% of turnover considered being unavoidable due to various life events. (Booyens, S. 2007). Nursing shortages and turnover continuous to present critical challenges in the all levels of healthcare. Several factors explain the cause of nursing turnover. Most of the time nurses supposed to work under stressful conditions for long hours, which can lead to job burnout and dissatisfaction results in making mistakes and errors can affect quality of patient

However, the different methods of leadership and management to the issue can help to improve the nursing satisfaction and healthy work environment..

Nursing leaders vs. Managers The management and leadership are different things, but some situations, both overlap and sound similar. They focus on different areas and but they both are important in the process to accomplish the desired outcome. Management is defined as the coordination and integration of resources through planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and controlling to accomplish specific institutional goals and objectives (Huber 5). The nurse managers have various roles in leading their unit. A manager role includes is to be a leader as well as a follower. Nurse managers face challenges due to ineffective skills. One of the problems due to ineffective leadership skill is nursing shortage and nurse turnover. They have the responsibility of developing and dealing the relationships with higher authorities, colleagues, and staff for achieving the goal. They need to assess the work environment continuous to make sure that are maintaining a healthy, positive work place, especially in the staffing and workload. The nurse manager with effective leadership and communication skills are capable of managing the

A leader is the one who works with the team to develop and achieve the future goals and objectives. (Yoder-Wise 35.). Unlike manager’s leaders doesn’t have the authority to get others to do things. Leadership is more about how people behave and how people engage with others. Anyone with communication skills, influence and motivate others to complete the task can be a leader. When there is a crisis, a leader could communicate with the team and ensure that they have understood the given task and make sure the team doing right. . Clancy (2003) noted that leaders need to “consistently find the courage to hold true to their beliefs and convictions” (p. 128). (Huber 7). A leader supposed to be a problem finders and problem solvers. If any problems in the workplace for others leaders supposed to help them to overcome their problems. Few reasons for staff shortage and turnovers due to feeling overworked, less recognition for their work, etc. The work of McDaniel and Wolf (1992), Taunton, Boyle, Woods, Hansen, and Bott (1997), research from Magnet hospitals (Scott, Sochalski, & Aiken, 1999), and work by Shobbrook and Fenton (2002). All these studies have denoted leadership behaviors that include supportive and encouragement of staff, high vision, and willingness to share leadership responsibilities positively influence staff nurse retention. The AONE (2002) reported that hospitals who proved with great