{"id":11212,"date":"2017-08-21T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nursemk.wpengine.com\/avoid-revolving-door-staff-turnover\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:14:22","slug":"avoid-revolving-door-staff-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurse.com\/solutions\/blog\/avoid-revolving-door-staff-turnover","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the Revolving Door of Nursing Staff Turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good recruiting, hiring and onboarding practices can reduce costly nursing staff turnover departures.<\/h2>\n

As a healthcare professional working in talent acquisition, you\u2019re committed to making your organization the best it can be by recruiting and retaining the best employees you can.<\/p>\n

Whether you are in recruiting, hiring, management, advertising or marketing<\/a>, you need to understand the healthcare employment market and how it can affect your recruitment, retention and ultimately, your staff turnover rate.<\/p>\n

Explore\u00a0why staff\u00a0leave<\/h3>\n

Turnover can be managed, but you need to understand its causes, how to calculate it, and how to deal with it.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> defines the staff turnover rate as the ratio of total employee separations to the average number of employees. Included in separations are voluntary and involuntary terminations, retirements, resignations, dismissals and layoffs. Some separations are inevitable, a few are warranted, but many are preventable.<\/p>\n

Turnover is not always given the attention it deserves. Why is it most managers are required to set key performance indicators and goals for things like quality improvement, satisfaction rates, revenue and expense targets, but may not be tasked with tracking staff turnover?<\/p>\n

Staff turnover is viewed differently from industry to industry. A high turnover rate at a fast-food restaurant or a furniture store may not be the same problem for management that it is in a hospital, and the difficulty involved in back filling the vacancies are not the same.<\/p>\n

When the work at hand is patient care, high turnover can:<\/p>\n