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December 2008 New research indicates that the nursing shortage is not so much a health care issue as it is a hospital one.1 In review of nurse turnover and the reasons behind it, a related but separate discovery has been made. Nurses are: 1. Frustrated with the current inefficiencies and conflicting priorities of the hospital workplace 2. Being told (indirectly) to not be who they authentically are 3. Not abiding by the natural instincts that drew them to nursing2 4. Feeling as though they have no voice in quality-of-care issues While these issues are recognized by many, they are being confronted by only few. Why? There is a dearth of proactive answers to the intertwined emotional issues within this critical profession. For years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been thrown at the nursing shortage, and, in the end, it has not been about monetary economics; the nursing shortage has clearly been about nurses’ emotional link between their unique talents and abilities and the opportunity to have a real impact on their patients. Through a review of what motivates and attracts great nurses, the Coffman Organization (formerly the MAJERS Research Institute) has identified specific actions that hospitals must take hold of to rejuvenate nursing quality and thus retain the best in health care. The answers come from a bold review of the specific reasons noted above why nurses are leaving hospitals and medical centers from Bangor, Maine, to Chula Vista, California. Let’s begin with #1—Nurses are frustrated with the current inefficiencies and conflicting priorities of the hospital workplace. In evaluating the past 25 Nurses Are Not Leaving Health Care |
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