AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by StrategiesforNurseManagers.com
Featuring Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, and Lydia Ostermeier MSN, RN, CHCR
presented on March 27, 2008
Stop the revolving door at your facility with retention strategies that work!
As many as six out of the10 new nurses you hire this year won’t last 12 months on the job, according to the latest research. And that’s just the new grads.
The highly publicized nursing shortage means you quickly need to hire competent nurses—and more importantly, find a way to keep them.
Spend 90 minutes with retention experts Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, and Lydia Ostermeier MSN, RN, CHCR, to learn strategies and techniques that will make the difference at your facility. During this audioconference, Retention in Nursing: Top Solutions to Keep Nurses from Hire to Retire, you’ll take away best practices, tips, tools and resources that have helped reduce turnover in healthcare facilities across the country.
We know you are pressed for time, which is why we’ve recruited two of the top names in nursing retention to help you avoid short-term gimmicks that don’t work. You’ll gain long-lasting and cost-saving strategies to retain nurses instead of spending all your time and effort to recruit them.
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise offered during this audioconference, you’ll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:
- Sample exit interview techniques and questions
- Sample employee ”favorites” list
- Sample agenda for retention committee
- Sample newspaper “bragging” stories template
- Retention budget planning worksheet from Clarian Health Partners
- Sample retention budget planning worksheet template
- Retention checklist, from start to finish for facilities of all sizes
- Sample retention survey questions
- Sample nursing satisfaction techniques and questions
- Unit recruitment and retention strategic plan
These materials are provided with PDF links.
AGENDA
- Retention as a recruitment tool
- Why is everyone leaving? A look at evidence and exit interviews
- Fiscal benefits of retention
- Turn the tide on turnover
- Staff nurse perspective
- Nurse manager perspective
- Tips, tools, and best practices to use today
- Different strokes for different folks: The need for a variety of tools
- Starting a committee; getting buy-in from above
- Specifically speaking: Retention strategies that work
- Case study from Clarian Health in Indianapolis, IN
- Case studies from the world of consulting
- Retention from start to finish
- Survey process to continuously assess staff perceptions
- Survey process to measure staff satisfaction
- Implement a yearly retention strategic plan per unit
- That’s a wrap: Further resources for retention
- Web sites, conferences, listservs, blogs, discussion boards
- Johnson & Johnson Discover Nursing campaign
- Final thoughts on StrategiesforNurseManagers.com blog
- Q & A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:
- List two concepts that make staff feel important to an organization
- Develop a retention committee and the agenda for the first meeting
- Implement an ongoing survey process to continuously assess staff perceptions related to retention
- Identify three retention best practices of high performing organizations for both seasoned nurses and new graduates
- Implement a yearly retention strategic plan per unit
FACULTY
Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, is the educator and consultant for Health Resources Unlimited, a company she founded in 1997. Her humorous approach to problem-solving has captivated audiences nationwide. She brings 30 years of experience into the classroom and is nationally known as an author, speaker, and coach. Currently active in patient care, her timely experiences are relevant to the issues at hand, which allows her to understand the perspectives from both the staff nurse as well as the administrative team. Her Web-based Tips of The Month and her publications through HCPro have had a positive effect on healthcare workers by empowering them with knowledge. With a focus on triage and leadership development, she is committed to the mission of Health Resources Unlimited by offering reality-based, timely programs.
Lydia Ostermeier MSN, RN, CHCR, is Director of Nurse Recruitment, Retention, Workforce Development, Resource Allocation and Customer Service at Clarian Health in Indianapolis, IN. In addition to recruiting and retaining about 5,000 nurses, Lydia initiates and maintains numerous workforce development opportunities that boost the number of qualified candidates in the pipeline for healthcare professions. She also manages contingent labor resources for the Clarian system, providing 350 internal resource pool nurses to Clarian’s urban and suburban hospitals. She joined Clarian in 1987 and has been in her current role since 2002.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Nurse managers, directors of nursing, chief nursing officers (CNOs), VPs of nursing, nursing home administrators, HR directors, staff educators, retention specialists, directors of recruitment and retention, retention coordinators, nurse recruiters, and staffing agencies
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