title: Retention strategy: a clinical ladder for occupational therapists.
abstract: This article explores the issue of retention of occupational therapists and its impact on the facility, client, department and the profession. It also describes the use of a clinical ladder as a retention tool and presents the experience of one clinical facility in developing a clinical ladder. The literature, in association with the experience of the aforementioned clinical facility in the development of a clinical ladder in an occupational therapy department, does not provide conclusive evidence of the efficacy of a clinical ladder as a retention tool. However, it does lend enough support for the concept to encourage its further use in occupational therapy departments. There is a need to be creative in the design of retention methodologies which will decrease turn over and attrition from the profession in order to provide a stable pool of personnel to agencies that employ occupational therapists.
authors: Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario.
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authors: Gage
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D009789:Occupational Therapy Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D009864:Ontario; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013192:Staff Development; D000078329:Workforce