What Strategies are Best to Keep Nurses from Exiting the Workforce?

by Flentis Corporation Vendor Management Software Company

Have you ever wondered, “How do hospitals retain nurses?” or “How do they get new nurses?” or “Do they fall short of staff?” Well, there has been a significant drop in the number of full-time nurses, especially since the pandemic.

So, what can be done to retain nurses and keep them from exiting the workforce? This is one question that has been coming around since COVID happened and hospitals are looking for a way out. It is not an easy task to retain your employees, especially in a field where you have both temporary, part-time, and permanent workforces. VMS solutions like FlentisPRO VMS have been a great support in terms of staffing for the healthcare industry during the deadly virus wave.

 

Don’t worry, we have a few ways to keep your nurses away from the thought of exiting your workforce and a few solutions that can retain them. Let’s go through the strategies through questions.

 

1. WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS OF YOUR NURSES?

It is always better to hear your nurses out. Know what is not working for them. This way you would have an idea of what can be done, and if there is something you could do in order to retain your employees. Long-term nurses notice their facility’s temporary nurses getting additional benefits, sign-on bonuses, higher pay, and flexibility in their work schedules. Sadly, long-term nurses are on fixed pay and don’t receive such benefits. Retention levels should be your priority. Decreasing the shift length, monetary incentives, and referral bonuses could make a change and increase the retention level.

 

2. IS IT THE WORKPLACE CULTURE THAT NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED?

There is no doubt that healthcare facilities have taken their employees for granted during and after the pandemic. Taking anyone for granted creates a negative feeling which can damage one’s morale. And it is obvious that no one likes to be taken for granted; people like to be valued and felt irreplaceable. Therefore, you should make your workplace culture better by making them feel cared for, supported, and appreciated for the efforts they put in. Recognition and reward are simple things to do for any nurse. When you provide a positive atmosphere for your nurses, you would notice several changes such as better mental health, a balanced lifestyle, and retention.

 

3. DO YOU ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY?

When you want to combat nurse shortage, save on expenses, create a positive rapport, and build a strong image for your organization, you must include diversity. An increase in diversity can be a big help in terms of nurse retention. This also assists you in onboarding the top talents. Additionally, hospitals should encourage educating candidates interested in nursing and provide a nursing diploma for them. Doing this would combat your cost barriers when you provide competitive tuition reimbursement benefits. Overall, this improves employee experience and could be one of the reasons to boost employee retention.

 

4. CAN A VMS ASSIST IN NURSE SHORTAGES?

A vendor management software is capable of managing your entire workforce and can store the entire data on the cloud space. This makes it easier for you and your stakeholders to access the data that has been secured with credentials. All the candidate information is logged in the talent pool which can help you in finding a potential candidate as per your requirement. Therefore, yes, a VMS can assist your firm during nurse shortages. You can easily search through the candidate list via keywords and finalize them when needed.

 

5. HOW CAN ALL THE NURSES BE MANAGED SMOOTHLY?

First of all, integrate with the VMS. Once you are thorough with this step, nothing can stop you from smooth management because all your data would be fed to the portal. The system has other features like a time tracker, KPI tracker, performance management, and much more that can help you keep a closer eye on your employees as you manage them from this simple portal. In fact, the VMS automatically generates reports for your analysis, and you can judge your vendors accordingly.

 

To sum it up, one must listen to the nurses’ concerns, this way you would have a better idea of the improvements that can be made; workplace culture should be prioritized in order to make nurses work whole-heartedly, not by force, and without being taken for granted; adjust your protocols to meet their need as this encourages them to stay back with the organization and work hard in order to achieve more; increase diversity as this assists in combating expenses and other cost barriers; educating candidates and encourage them to increase nurse educators.

 

FlentisPRO is the best VMS in the USA. It has been serving many multi-national organizations for several years and has successfully added to the growth as well as the profit of many firms it has integrated with. Not only this, but recently two major businesses have collaborated with FlentisPRO, namely WorkLLama and Independly.ai. There are many more collaborations on the way for this vendor management software, especially after its enthralling webinar in August 2022.

 

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