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Hold on to seasoned RNs

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 24, 2006

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At an average age of 47 years old, American nurses are heading toward retirement and causing organizations to reconsider their retention efforts. For example, when faced with losing the expertise of approximately 370 older nurses, Barbara J. "BJ" Hannon, RN, MSN, the Magnet coordinator at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and her colleagues created multigenerational nursing focus groups to learn what older nurses (those age 50-59) want from their institutions.

Hannon suggests rewarding older registered nurses by

• rewarding tenure with clinical ladders that include years of service.
• offering more committee assignments during the week.
• allowing more non-patient care time to magnify their expertise.

To learn three more ways to reward older nurses, as well as strategies to stop ageism and improve relations between nurses go to The Staff Educator (TSE). For the cost of just three stories, you can get the entire March issue of TSE. Click here to choose between the PDF and HTML versions for just $30. Subscribers to the online version of TSE have free access to this article. Subscribers to the print newsletter can find this article in their March issue.

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