title: Keeping nurses. How one hospital and two systems cured their staffing ills.
abstract: The nurse shortage is threatening to reach crisis proportions for hospitals around the nation. But one hospital and two health care systems have virtually eliminated their nurse vacancy rates through strategies that respect and energize their nursing staffs.
authors.forename: Dagmara
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scalise
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D009518:New York; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D013781:Texas