Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management

Description

One of the issues causing drawback to nursing practice in healthcare organization today is high turnover rates of nurses. This surge really affects the quality of care and patient safety a lot. Therefore, there should be an urgent need to address this issue in order to prevent it. This paper will cover the issue of nurse turnover which explains its impacts on patient safety and quality of care, it will also throw more light on how professional standards of practice should be carried out when experiencing nurse turnover, additionally, it will explain the nurse leader’s and nurse manager’s roles in the situation and their different approached in addressing the issue.

Managers and leaders’ aspects need to ensure professionalism in addressing the issue, and description of a leadership style which is the best at addressing it. Although nurse turn over may have its positive sides which involves challenges to improving work environment, and enthusiasm of newly hired nurses, the negative aspects of it are more disadvantageous to health care settings. Faraz, A. (2017) stipulates that nurse turnover has become a threat to the healthcare industry for years and this remains a setback to patients and healthcare organizations (Faraz, 2017).

According to Stamps, Beales and Toor (2019), the average hospital is estimated to suffer losses of around $350,000 on an annual basis per percentage rise in yearly nurse turnover. Experience has shown that the average rate of turnover for nurses is 17.1% per year, and in the past two years, the rate of nurse turnover have increased from 16.8% in 2017 to 17.2% in 2018. Nurse turnover is an undesirable trend for healthcare employers, and it is expensive, disruptive, and threatening to the quality of care and patient safety. Nurses all over the United States are switching jobs because of the realism that nursing is a very difficult and taxing job.