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orientation time. At Premier Health-
Miami Valley, Luster partners with a
local college to hire senior-year ST students
to work 2 days a week and reimburses
tuition after graduation when
they work full time. " The costs are offset
by having STs up and running in
less time, " she says.
Sarah Bosserman, MSN, RN, CNOR,
perioperative clinical nurse educator
and CNOR coach and instructor at WellSpan
Health-York Hospital in York,
Pennsylvania, runs a 3-week perioperative
nursing course in conjunction with
the local school. Participants work in
the OR as part of the course. Of the 55
who have completed the course since
2011, four were recruited for the OR at
WellSpan Health-York Hospital. More
than a dozen students have pursued
perioperative careers at other facilities
across the country.
Studies have shown that residency
programs are effective in retaining new
graduate nurses. The residency program
at Houston Methodist accepts
new grads as well as those who lack
OR experience. Nurses with experience
in critical care or a procedural area are
particularly valued.
Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich,
Connecticut, offers a nurse residency
program to new grads and nurses without
OR experience, whether they work
within the hospital or at another facility.
Rey De La Cruz, RN, CNOR, OR education
specialist, says that before nurses
are accepted into the program, they
interview with HR, nursing leadership,
and peers.
" They also spend a day job shadowing,
so they know what they are getting
into, " De La Cruz says. During the
12-month program, lectures are supplemented
with clinical rotations in a
variety of specialties. The first group,
which completed the program in 2018,
included six nurses, four of whom were
hired for the OR and went on to earn
CNOR certification.
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scheduling to attract Millennials, who
now comprise about 44% of the workforce.
At IU Health, Walke offers a variety
of shifts, including 8, 9, 10, and 12
hours. " We've found that flexibility allows
us to cover the needs in a different way,
but also attracts recruits who see that
there's flexibility instead of a traditional
12-hour shift, " she says.
A thornier problem is call. Some of
Walke's staff work the night shift to
mitigate the number of on-call hours required,
although she says it's a work in
progress. " We really work with the staff
to try to build models that reduce the
call burden, " she says.
Continuing the recruitment journey
Once marketing successfully brings in
candidates, the next step is to evaluate
them. A major strategy for doing that (but
not the only one) is the interview, which
is discussed in Part 2 in this series. ✥
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN, is president of
CLS Development, Inc, Columbia, Maryland,
which provides editorial services to
healthcare publications.
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Nurses as super
commuters
Managers may want to cast a
wider geographic net when it comes
to recruiting. The average commute
in the US is 25 minutes, but many
nurses are commuting more than 90
minutes each way, most typically from
a more rural area to an urban area.
Nurses are part of a growing trend of
super commuters-between 2005 and
2019, the number of super commuters
increased by 31.7%, according to
a study from Apartment List.
The three main reasons nurses
choose these commutes are better
pay, working in a supportive culture,
and access to work that challenges
them professionally, although pay
seems to be the most important.
Some nurses are even commuting by
airplane and renting an apartment in
the city where they work.
The default thinking is that a
longer commute results in less
satisfaction (and therefore, more
turnover), but that's not always the
case. A 2016 study of rural nurses
who commuted to urban areas found
that those who didn't commute were
more likely to be dissatisfied with
their jobs, facilities, and salaries.
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