Our mission at The Sullivan Group is to positively change clinical practice, improve patient safety and reduce malpractice litigation. Because of this, we are often asked by clinical leaders and clients to explore the impact our RSQ® Solutions platform may have on other areas of the healthcare business. A Chief Nursing Officer with whom we have worked for the past several years connected with me at the 19th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress in Orlando, FL, with a similar inquiry. She asked if we had any evidence to support a relationship between our work with improving nursing competency/patient safety and nursing retention rates.
While my immediate answer was that we did not, I felt like this was something that many of our other colleagues and clients might be interested in exploring as well.
Inspired by this inquiry, we have outlined below a few observations and questions that we hope will lead to further thought-provoking analyses and discussions with clients that could contribute to reducing nursing retention rates in healthcare.
If you have additional information to share or this happens to be a topic of interest for you, please contact us to discuss ways that we might collaborate on future projects.
According to the 2016 National Healthcare Retention and RN Staffing Report published by NSI Nursing Solutions, Inc.:
While this is a bit of a departure from our typical clinical focus, it’s a critical element of healthcare delivery. We hope to elicit feedback and/or additional questions that other nurse leaders have about the relationships between clinical competency, patient safety and nursing turnover rates.
Again, please contact us if you have any feedback or insight on this topic or are interested in partnering to help answer these questions.