title: Job embeddedness as a nurse retention strategy for rural hospitals.
abstract: RN turnover is expensive and disruptive for rural hospitals, constraining finances, impacting patient care, and stressing remaining nurses. Recent investigations have described a promising new construct related to employee retention: job embeddedness. Leaders in nonhealthcare organizations have adopted a job-embeddedness model to guide retention strategies and experienced a subsequent reduction in turnover. The author explores job embeddedness as an effective retention plan strategy for rural hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Director of Critical Care, Three Rivers Medical Center, Louisa, Kentucky, USA. cstroth@zoominternet.net
authors.forename: Chandra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stroth
mesh_terms: D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D014481:United States