title: Learning communities: the link to recruitment and retention.
abstract: The professional learning community is a strategy to help staff development educators address recruitment and retention and organizational culture. The purpose of this article is to analyze the concept of learning communities and discuss their potential to increase the recruitment and retention of new graduate nurses and returning practitioners to the nursing profession. Incorporating learning communities into the healthcare organization will decrease the number of nurses leaving nursing, foster retention, and thus, enhance recruitment.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Community Health Liaison, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2026, USA. sherry.bassi@uconn.edu
authors.forename: Sherry
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bassi
authors.forename: E Carol
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Polifroni
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D007857:Leadership; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States