Nurses Turnover: Retention of the Staff

Abstract

An extended literature review has been conducted about nurses’ turnover, and how to retain the staff by applying appropriate Human Resources theory in the healthcare organisation, to retain nurses and eliminate turnover. This is through exploring the Human Resource Management issue related to nurses’ high turnover and the reason which is behind to leave their hospitals in Kuwait. Also, the study will critically examine the working nature and the issue behind nurses’ turnover. In addition, motivational theories will be used in this paper and will apply some strategies that can be used to avert the causes of the problem, to ensure that nurses are retained within their organisations. Aim: To enhance employee loyalty to their organisations and effectively retain nurses’ staff in X organisation, with a particular reference to Human Resources Management. Methodology: Various literature, journals, articles, reports and books were reviewed to achieve the aim of this paper, specific consideration was given to the leadership. A relevant Human Resources Theory was applied with leadership support to retain nurses in the organisation and to reduce nurses’ turnover. Findings: Leaders are important to develop a considerable retention strategy within the organisation, by increasing the nurse’s loyalty and satisfaction through different techniques such as policy and guidelines, motivating through allowances and leave, further changing the system. Recommendations: To provide extensive training to the leaders to enhance their skills in managing the organisation and staff. To overcome the issues that interfere with nurses’ satisfaction and solve the issues to retain the nurses.