A displacement orientation program. Effects on transferred nurses.
When nursing administrators make a decision to close nursing units and displace staff nurses, nursing staff respond with feelings of anger and demoralization. Instituting a Displacement Orientation Program (DOP) can positively affect the staff nurses' level of anger, independence, innovation, self-confidence, and productivity. This article presents a research based DOP used to minimize staff reactions and maximize staff adjustments to displacement.
D004651:Employment; D006268:Health Facilities; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009013:Morale; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010559:Personnel Management; D010563:Personnel Turnover