Reducing Annual Hospital and Registered Nurse Staff Turnover—A 10-Element Onboarding Program Intervention

SAGE Open Nursing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kurnat Thoma, Emma ^a   Ganger, Mary ^a   Peterson, Kelly ^a   Channell, Lesley ^a  

^a Reston Hospital Center   (United States)

Author keywords

exit surveys; hospital employee retention; hospital turnover; nurse turnover; onboarding; turnover analysis; turnover reduction initiative

Indexed keywords

EID: 85084750973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23779608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2377960817697712     Document Type: Article

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