...RETENTION RESEARCH PAPER Nurse Retention 07/28/08 Contents Introduction Literature review Plan of action Discussion Conclusion Introduction The priority goal of every hospital leadership team is to develop and retain a stable workforce that provides high quality patient care (Missouri Hospital Association [MHA], 2005). Nurse retention and recruitment are the top issues that all health organizations are facing in nowadays. They most effectively develop strategies not only to recruit nurses, but to retain experienced and knowledgeable bedside nurses who will deliver an excellent care. Practical retention plans and strategies are crucial to the financial and quality outcomes of an organization (Golden, 2008) Factors that are contributing and affecting nurse retention and consequently causing workforce disruption are related to high turnover, aging workforce, and job dissatisfaction. Literature Review Turnover is costly to an organization, creating significant financial burdens and affecting morale and clinical quality (Golden, 2008). Although the full impact of staff nurse turnover on hospital costs has not been assessed, costs associated with recruitment and hiring, personnel processing and training of new nurses are known to significantly increase as result of high turnover (Weisman, Alexander&Chase, 1981). There are several factors that contribute to hospitals currently high turnover...
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...I agree, nurse retention is always a "hot topic" especially from a management perspective. I believe that a nurse's willingness to stay at a facility is multifaceted, and range from overall job dissatisfaction, poor interpersonal relationships, and personal career goals. Magnet hospitals are notorious for their high standards of care and educational requirements for their nursing staff. However it is a little known fact (at least to me) that Magnet hospitals also have a higher nurse retention rate. So why are their nurses staying for the duration while other facilities continue to lose nurses left and right? How can other facilities mimic the success of the magnet nurse retention model? The magnet model is provide nurses with ALL the things they need in order...
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...Factors That Contribute to Nurse Manager Retention Mickey L. Parsons, Jana Stonestreet Disclosures Nurs Econ. 2003;21(3) * Print * Email Introduction The purpose of this study was to describe factors that contribute to a health system's successful retention of nurse managers. This study is the first of a series that will provide the foundation for developing the nursing organization as a "health-promoting organization." The background and significance, theoretical framework, study findings, and executive strategies are discussed. The results and implications are intended to guide executive strategies, including organizational interventions, to build the nursing organization for quality patient care and positive working environments. Background and Significance The glue that holds the hospital together are the first-line managers. However, these managers are caught in a crossfire. Torn between multiple needs — patient, the staff, and the administration — nurse managers have been downsized and stretched over multiple units (Curtin, 2001). Nurse managers responsible for multiple units are severely challenged to maintain the needed blend and balance of clinical and business management, which is essential to staff nurse retention. Report after report identifies the importance of the nurse manager in retaining nursing staff (Boyle, Bott, Hansen, Woods, & Taunton, 1999; Corser, 1998; Cullen, 1999; Flannery & Grace, 1999; Fletcher, 2001; Kerfoot, 2000; Leveck...
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...Nurses should take a more proactive role in the recruitment and retention of nurses. To understand the profession of nursing, the forces currently influencing the profession and its progression should also be understood. These forces not only affect nursing in general, but all of its allies, including the entire health care delivery system. Globally, finances play a major role in whether nursing will survive or die and in need of a place to be buried. Public and private programs have almost met their demise in their business of increasing demands for nursing care. Because the population is becoming more mature in age, the demand for more and extensive health care delivery services are varied and in great demand. It has become a reality in today's society that more people are becoming less able to pay for health insurance; therefore, the emergency rooms in the general hospital have become routine physician office visits. Health services as mental health, preventive physical and diagnostic examinations in the emergency room are used daily by people who could have afforded them in the not so distance past. Costs of health care has increased to the point that the federal government is presently debating the Medicare/Medicaid benefits, and adjusting fees for physicians and health care services according to diagnostic related groups. With the implementation of the diagnostic related groups, persons hospitalized are classified as the acutely ill, while the chronic ill persons are cared...
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...http://www.studymode.com/essays/Drainflow-Repairing-Jobs-That-Fail-To-1346002.html Drainflow Repairing Jobs That Fail to Satisfy Potential effectiveness of a Cash Reward System and Structured Interview Program for DrainFlow Report for the Manager William Assemiah, 12021643 Irene Aidoo, 12021610 Sroda Adzo Apam, 12021626 Asare Ohenedwira Thomas, 12021639 Dorothy Dede Aklerh Asamoah, 12021634 Sampson Abbey Armah, 12021630 Arthur Sherifa, 12021631 Amadu Waliu, 12021617 Report Summary 1. Executive Summary DrainFlow, a plumbing maintenance firm in the USA, has been losing its customers to competitors due to poor services. Job motivation and satisfaction among employees is declining across various job categories within the firm. This dissatisfaction has been attributed to the overspecialization of some job functions in the company. The report attempts to assist DrainFlow improve in three key areas: job structure and design, incentive policies, and recruitment practices. It will go further to analyze the causes of the woes being faced by DrainFlow and provide a constructive recommendation on how to overcome them The main contents include an introduction to the problems DrainFlow is encountering, analyses of the current business, and recommendations on how DrainFlow can overcome these issues to foster a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Introduction Research shows that a happy worker is a productive employee. Satisfied employees tend to be better at their workplaces...
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...complete retention strategy, due to gathering new customers is costly. Being able to retain customers during a downfall, when that is happening people are looking for a lower cost alternative. Knowing why a customer is leaving is important. There are customer churn analysis and apprehending methods, and trend analysis. Along with the customer churn profiling. Developing Customer Retention Strategies. Customer Retention is important because getting a new customer is expensive rather than keeping the existing one. Retention is meaningful to most companies because the cost of having new customers is much more than the cost of keeping good relationships with their current customers. How to contain customers during a downfall? During a downfall is the time when people look for a lower cost alternative. In these circumstances, down-selling can be key to retaining customers. When economy overcomes, the customers are likely to move up to the original services they had subscribed too. Down falling is better than losing customers. However that can have negative effects on sales, this should be carried out carefully on customers who are at risk of churning to lower cost alternatives, methods can be used to identify customers at risk of churning. Knowing why a customer leaves. The most important thing in customer retention is to know the customer well enough, know there expectations, satisfactions, and their tendencies. By knowing these about a customer the more efficient retention strategies...
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...PREMIER COLLEGE DOCUMENT RETENTION POLICY January 20, 2016 POLICY STATEMENT POLICY STATEMENT Premier College has developed a document Retention Policy to protect and preserve all critical documents as required by state and federal laws. The College is responsible for retaining paper and electronic documents in a safe and secure environment to ensure the basic values of accuracy, confidentiality, security, and proper archiving as well as proper document destruction once documents have served their purpose. This Policy is also for the purpose of aiding employees of the organization understanding their obligations in retaining electronic documents including e-mail, Web files, sound and movie files, PDF, TIFF, TXT files and documents, Calendars, Computer usage logs, Internet usage logs, Databases, and all Microsoft Office or other formatted file. This policy is written with considerations for compliance with federal mandates and acts including The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), The Fair Credit and Accurate Transaction Act (FACTA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) and other federal, state and local mandates. EFFECTIVE DATE This Policy is effective as of January 20, 2016, (the “Effective Date”) and applies to all documents created after the Effective Date. However, to the extent possible, the Policy will be applied to all documents regardless of creation date. LEGAL HOLD A legal hold suspends all document destruction...
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...To truly reach employees and make your messages stick, you need to approach them as any company would approach their potential customers. Sound crazy? We will attempt to de-crazy it for you. Check it out: Employees are consumers of your messages, just as your customers are consumers of your product. Like your customers, your employees are busy. Their attention is being pulled in a dozen different directions at any given moment. Therefore, it takes strong, authentic and cleverly presented messages in order to cut through the day to day clutter and really reach an employee. And we’ve found that when employees are treated not as assembly line producers, but rather as humans whose allegiance an organization is fortunate to have, something very beneficial happens—employees will work harder and better because they feel an emotional attachment to their employer. This is something theCEO of Southwest Airlines learned long ago – and to great benefit. Over the years, whenever reporters would ask CEO Herb Kelleher the secret to Southwest’s success, he had a consistent response. “You have to treat your employees like customers,” he told Fortune in 2001. Friends and peers of Kelleher’s would often see his philosophy in action. “There isn’t any customer satisfaction without employee satisfaction,” said Gordon Bethune, the former chief executive of Continental Airlines, and an old friend of Mr. Kelleher’s. “He recognized that good employee relations would affect the bottom line....
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...Measuring Customer Satisfaction Introduction – Customer Satisfaction The definition of customer satisfaction is very simple. A customer is satisfied whenever his or her needs, real or perceived, are met or exceeded. So how do you know what the customer needs, wants and expects? It’s very simple. You ask, and then you provide what the customer wants and more (Gerson, 1993, p.17). There exists an interaction between the desired results and customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and customer retention. Without the customer it is impossible for any business to sustain itself. Achieving the desired results is frequently a result of customer actions. Any business without a focus on customer satisfaction is at the mercy of the market. Without loyal customers eventually a competitor will satisfy those desires and the customer retention rate will decrease. There are several levels of customers: 1 1. Dissatisfied customer - Looking for someone else to provide product or service. 2. Satisfied customer - Open to the next better opportunity. 3. Loyal customer - Returns despite offers by the competition. Dissatisfied customers are an interesting group. For every one that complains there are at least 25 who do not. Dissatisfied customers by word of mouth will tell eight to sixteen others about their dissatisfaction. With the web some are now telling thousands. 91% of dissatisfied customers never purchase goods or services from the company...
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...Product/service being offered Myer is Australia's largest department store group, and a market leader in Australian retailing, offering an unrivalled choice in the latest national, international and 'exclusive to Myer' brands across women's, men's, and children's fashion, as well as accessories, cosmetics, homeware, and much more. Myer’s focus remains on being the first choice for customers when shopping for fashion, cosmetics and the home. They have the largest range of desired brands and styles that offer newness, fashionability, quality and value, with increasing exclusivity. The Myer merchandise offer includes 11 core product categories: Womenswear; Menswear; Miss Shop (Youth); Childrenswear; Intimate apparel; Beauty, fragrance and cosmetics; Homewares; Electrical goods; Toys; Footwear, handbags and accessories; and General merchandise. Besides having a wide range of merchandise, Myer also provide services in selected stores, which include Cafés and Restaurants, Formal Hire, Optical, Hair and Beauty Salons, florist (My Flowerhouse),Weight Watchers Lifestyle Centres, Photographic, and Myer Bridal & Gift Registry. Sources of value Value creation and delivery is a key element for strategic customer relationship management. Value can be thought of as the relationship between the benefits experienced from a product or service and the sacrifices made to enjoy those benefits. * Value from product In terms of product innovation, Myer has introduced a new sister...
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...the new information, and then routes the member to tbe appropriate staff person for consultation." He slipped tbe next image over tbe map. It showed Quality Care's own facilities in dull brown. "HealtbCare One will have all its facilities up and running on the Dawn Iacobucci is an associate professor of marketing at the f.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston. Illinois. 20 new system by June. Tbe number two player, MediCenters, is planning to install a similar system by January 1997. I think you should consider it seriously - it's really tbe wave of tbe future." Tbe last overbead. A model of a "new and improved" Quality Care reception area. No more crowded waiting room. Patients talking with nurses in the privacy of small, partitioned cubicles. Other patients checking in, paying bills, even hav- ing tbeir blood...
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...their current medical condition, the reason for the visit, and so on. Everything is done electronically: The computer pulls the member’s record, processes the new information, and then routes the member to the appropriate staff person for consultation.” He slipped the next image over the map. It showed Quality Care’s own facilities in dull brown. “HealthCare One will have all its facilities up and running on the new system by June. The number two player, MediCenters, is planning to install a similar system by January 1997. I think you should consider it seriously—it’s really the wave of the future.” The last overhead. A model of a “new and improved” Quality Care reception area. No more crowded waiting room. Patients talking with nurses in the privacy of small, partitioned cubicles. Other patients checking in, paying bills, even having their blood pressure taken at attractive computer stations. “I think this one speaks for itself.” Jack let the image sink in for a moment. “But I’ll comment...
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...RUNING HEAD: BEST PRACTICES IN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT Customer Satisfaction Measurement Best Practices Devry University Keller Graduate School Of Management Managing Quality 09/21/2012 Customer satisfaction is the state of mind that customers have about a company when their expectations have been met or exceeded over the lifetime of the product or service. The achievement of customer satisfaction leads to company loyalty and product repurchase. Customer satisfaction is very important in all types of business operations and the best practices that deliver such a satisfaction are the tools that lead to the best results and gains that many firm and companies enjoy at the end of the quest. The best practices in customer service are the engine of the company future and this does reflect in the culture of the company and how it handles the most important factor in its look for best results and shines the road for the competitive leadership awards. Being able to understand the satisfaction level of customer can make the fine lines between loss and profit. Top managers and responsible executives need to assess the importance of understanding if their customers are still satisfied with their products and services as they were last year or last quarter. They also need to know how that level of satisfaction can affect the profits of the firm or company and if those changes in the satisfaction...
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...W A T S O N H A L L UK data retention requirements information data retention and disposal Watson Hall Ltd London 020 7183 3710 Edinburgh 0131 510 2001 info@watsonhall.com www.watsonhall.com Each type of data within an organisation should be identified and classified. Once this has been completed and during periodic reviews, it is necessary to define the retention and disposal policy. Business data records should be assessed for the statutory and legal requirements, business and accountability requirements and the risks associated with keeping or disposing of the data records. A records management system or schedule of data retention criteria can be used to document the data records, the requirements and the security controls needed for their identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention and disposal. There are a large number of statutes, case law and regulations defining how long some data must be kept for before it is destroyed — some of which are outlined on the following pages. A few requirements such as records of wages apply to almost all sectors, but we have listed some specific requirements for the communications, financial and governmental sectors. Other sectors have equally important requirements. The exact minimum retention period varies with the specific data type, and the starting date is often context related e.g. period from an event like an accident, retirement or the advertisement of a product. This document is based on the previous work...
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...retained for a certain period. It needs to be easily accessed and understood in the future. Information should be archived to increase the security of the data so that only authorised people can access it. Another reason why information should be archived is so that it frees up space in the workplace to ensure that the place is not cramped with information that is not required frequently and to make sure that it is a pleasant clutter- free place to work in. 1.2 The purpose of agreeing retention dates is to ensure that the organisation has compliance with the Skill Funding Agency which requires learner files to be held on to for 5 years. It is important for staff to know the retention periods before archiving so that there is no risk of archiving information that is not relevant and can be destroyed and also to ensure that there is no risk of destroying information that is still within its retention period which could cause huge problems to the organisation. Another purpose for agree retention periods is so that the archiving system can be kept organised and space on the hard-drive is not being wasted in information that doesn’t need to be kept anymore and it makes it easier for specific information to be found and accessed when needed as there are less files to look through. 1.3 When archiving information it is vital that it is filed in the correct place in the hard-drive so that authorised staff can access it easily, it is securely protected and there is no risk of the...
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