Nursing workforce retention: challenging a bullying culture.
Discussions surrounding nursing shortages typically focus on recruitment, but retention is also a problem. Emerging research suggests that intimidation in the nursing workforce is a problem that planners need to deal with as part of an overall strategy aimed at maintaining a balance between supply and demand. This paper explores issues surrounding intimidation in the nursing workforce and looks at how one major teaching hospital in Australia attempted to address the problem.
Stevens
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School of Public Health, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
D000378:Agonistic Behavior; D001315:Australia; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000592:standards; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011340:Problem Solving; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology