Rx for the Nursing Shortage: A Guidebook (Management Series)

By Julie Schaffner, Patti Ludwig-Beymer, Health Administration Press

Is your organization constantly battling the nursing shortage? Are you having to cancel elective surgeries due to lack of available nursing staff? Are your current nurses nearing retirement age?

If your organization is suffering from the decreasing number of qualified nurses, this new practical book, Rx for the Nursing Shortage, will help you create an environment that both attracts new nurses and helps you keep the ones you have on staff.

Written by two nurses with over 50 years of experience between them, this practical book provides strategies for recruiting and retaining nurses; describes the roles of the executive, senior, and middle nurse managers; and highlights the qualities that make an organization attractive to nurses. Also included are "toolbox lists" of 100 practical ways to recruit, retain, and lead RNs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567931944
• ISBN13: 9781567931945
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: ACHE Learn
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource for Hospital Administrators

An excellent resource for a hospital looking to attract and retain top-tier nurses. The book makes a strong case for the strategies that can be used in recruiting, professional growth and development, and integration with Magnet status. The book also provides a wealth of "toolboxes" - which are practical, working ideas for the reader to be able to implement.

Excellent reference

Every word of this book is valuable if you are trying to recruit and retain nurses during a shortage which is reaching crisis levels.