Solving the Staffing Crunch: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Top Staff

A significant number of nurses now working in hospitals are nearing retirement. At the same time, fewer and fewer young people are entering the profession. These two factors combined have left a large gap in the health care industry that administrators must attempt to fill.

For nursing executives, the challenges are great. From scrambling to fill empty shifts to listening to unhappy nurses, you face recruitment and retention issues on a daily basis. As a leader in your facility, you also play a key role in developing creative solutions to the shortage. Whether it's crafting an innovative recruitment effort or coming up with a new way to reward and recognize staff, each strategy helps the profession as a whole move closer to a solution to the shortage. By sharing these strategies with facilities across the country and across care settings, you can further help to address the current staffing crisis.

The stories in this report offer a variety of recruitment and retention strategies. With these tools, you can begin to create a comprehensive approach to alleviate the effects of the nursing shortage in your facility.

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