Nurse Retention
Improve Your Nurse Retention With The LifeWings
Program
We have reached a critical point in healthcare where ensuring greater nurse job
satisfaction today will have an immediate and significant impact on the future
of patient care and financial viability. The combined shortage of nurses with
the high
first-year turnover rates of new nurses
highlights the importance of taking every measure possible to keep the quality
nurses you have today.
The LifeWings Nurse Retention Improvement Program can help you do that. With
custom on-site consulting, training, and tools we have been successful in
helping more than 85 healthcare facilities make measurable improvements in their
healthcare delivery and employee satisfaction. And, we have demonstrated success
specifically
improving nurse retention.
Why Our Program Works To Help You Improve Nurse Retention
and Recruitment
The LifeWings program changes the culture of
your workplace. Based on best practices used in high reliability
organizations, we systematically help your staff adopt new techniques,
protocols, and procedures to improve the worklife for your nurses. These changes
result in greater overall employee satisfaction as they redefine the standards
for your work environment. Read our
nurse,
physician, and
executive testimonials from more than
80 healthcare facilities nationwide to see what kind of feedback you will
receive from your staff.
"LifeWings far exceeded our expectations. We have been
able to get 100% buy in from our physicians and staff. I couldn't sing your
praises any more. This is an excellent program."
Joan Cappelletti, Woman's & Children's Service Line
Administrator, Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center
Your hospital can count on the specific
application of nurse-centered services that we offer to:
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Establish Areas of Improvement To Improve
Nurse Retention Expose your
hospital's specific areas of needed improvement to ensure greater nursing
staff satisfaction. You will be provided a professional, objective
assessment on the specific goals of your nurse retention program so that at
the completion of the training series you will have tools and standards to
address the problems at your hospital - not general problems
faced by other facilities.
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Help
Your Doctors and Nurses Work Together More Effectively
Improve physician-nurse communications via dynamic teamwork skills training
workshops that help improve collaboration and reduce
medical errors.
Treatment of nurses is widely accepted as major reason for their
dissatisfaction. LifeWings' experienced facilitators are able to bring your
team together in a problem solving venue and teach them how to communicate
more effectively and respectfully.
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Empower Your Nurses To Confront Potential
Problems Before They Become Crises
Provide your nursing staff with protocols that allow them to alert staff to
potential errors without the fear of a negative consequences. Reports often
cite nurse overload as a big factor in why nurses leave and why patient care
is compromised. Giving your nursing staff a concise method to use when they
are feeling overwhelmed removes the stigma associated with speaking out and
can prevent burnout from becoming too significant.
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Improve Your Hospitals' Ability to Recruit
Qualified Nurses Being able to
demonstrate to potential nurses that your facility is committed to their job
satisfaction at a level beyond that of merely periodic recognition and
signing bonuses will give your hospital an edge to today's competitive
environment.
What To
Expect With The LifeWings Nurse Retention Improvement Program
Based on our
Patient Safety Improvement Program, but with a
special focus on establishing and meeting nurse retention goals, we conduct a
series of on-site, integrated training sessions and services to address your
needed improvements.
We will draw on our large staff of experienced
healthcare professionals, patient safety experts, and
patient safety facilitators to conduct a
five-step program at your facility. Typically a nurse retention program for a
single department will include a risk assessment, leadership development
training, teamwork skills workshops, and the development of safety tools and
measurement systems.
Experience Is The Best Guarantee of Results
Improving nurse retention is a critical goal and you need to know that the
provider you work with can deliver results. LifeWings measures the improvements
for all of our projects so we know that the methodology we use and the tools we
develop work for our clients. Our program has been touted in
national media publications and our clients consistently provide
positive feedback on our performance.
The LifeWings program improves nurse retention and provides a significant return
on your program investment. Read one of our success stories to learn how we can
help your hospital:
In a hospital in the central U.S. we worked with the Chief
Nursing Officer to reduce nurse turnover in two of the hospital’s ICUs. Friction
between physicians and nursing staff had increased dramatically due to poor
communication styles and lingering resentments. Morale was at an all time low
and turnover and its associated costs were at an all time high. Poor
teamwork and physician and nursing communication had affected the quality of
care and near misses and adverse outcomes had risen.
The CMO and unit managers wanted to
reduce turnover by creating a sense of
teamwork among the staff and
physicians.
LifeWings created specific tools to
allow for team building and provided
focused communication training to
improve information flow in a defined
and precise way. Additionally, the
staff was equipped with a system to
provide for early detection of warning
signs that coordination was breaking
down.
Our training and tools were successful.
Turnover in the ICUs decreased by 23%
and 35% respectively. The
cost savings in reducing turnover provided a project ROI of
over 223%.
Contact us now
to discuss your hospital's nurse
retention goals and learn more about how the LifeWings program can help.
