At Avant Healthcare Professionals, we provide long-term, internationally educated, experienced registered nurses to enhance your current staffing strategy. Avant nurses help to improve the continuity of your care and patient outcomes. Overall, we focus on retention while building and stabilizing your core staff.
I recently had the pleasure of hearing LeAnn Thieman, author of the best-selling book Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul, speak at the 2017 Texas Organization of Nurse Executives annual conference in Dallas. LeAnn is an expert on nurse retention and understands that healthy, fulfilled nurses improve patient care, safety, and satisfaction. Her presentation at TONE 2017 helped reiterate the importance of nurse retention.
Another advantage that I have, talking to hundreds of leaders across the country, is listening to challenges regarding nurse retention. While the list can be exhaustive, I have narrowed it down to my list of the 7 Most Common Nurse Retention Mistakes:
The next several years are predicted to be among the worst nursing shortages we have seen. As demand increases with the aging baby boomer population, current nurse retirements begin to increase, and uncertainty in the healthcare industry continues.
Will you be ready and able to retain your experienced nurses?
At Avant Healthcare Professionals, we provide long-term, internationally educated, experienced registered nurses to enhance your current staffing strategy. Avant nurses help to improve the continuity of your care, patient outcomes, and overall retention while building and stabilizing your core staff.
Our international solution reduces contingent staff spend, reliance on high-cost travel nurses, reduces your attrition and vacancy rates, and decreases your overall long-term staffing challenges.
These are my top seven. What are yours? Did I leave out any that you feel I should’ve included? Please let me know!
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