Ohio Hospitals Reported the Low Turnover Rates of Nurses

Although there are hospitals around the country which experience nursing scarcity that is becoming worse, one part of Ohio has nurses putting off retirement and continue with the job. According to Bill Linesch, the Vice-President of human resources for Premier Health Partners, nurses who were affected by lay-offs in other Dayton-area industries are working more hours for their families. On the other hand, others delayed retirement once their 401(k) accounts fell along with the stock market. Just a few years ago at the Premier-run Miami Valley Hospital, the rate of proceeds for registered nurses has crashed to less than 1 percent from more than 10 percent.  Renae Phillips, the center’s chief nurse executive of Children’s Medical Center of Dayton said that the rate was 5.2 percent in current months, down from 6.8 percent of the previous year. She said, 
 People are not as enthusiastic to alter positions. We have a lot of employees whose family members have been affected by the recession. The area was socked in December by the closure of General Motors Corp. plant located in Moraine. The result of this decision was 1,080 jobless persons and affected dozens of area suppliers.  All over the country, nursing schools were able to deploy graduates quickly to sustain the demand for nurses.

Peter Buerhaus of Vanderbilt University Medical Center said that by the year 2025, the shortage could increase to 500,000 as many nurses be pensioned off and the demand for nurses expand. For the past two years, there is no deficiency of nurses at the Kettering and Grandview medical centers near Dayton where the rate of return have been below 1 percent, and the rates could go down even lower, explained by Brenda Kuhn, Kettering Health Network’s chief nursing officer.

This is the basis why several members of Wright State’s November class of nursing graduates had a hard time finding their first job, said Theresa Haghnazarian of the university’s Miami Valley College of Nursing & Health. Two years ago, graduates can make a pick of several jobs but the condition is probably exceptional to the Dayton area. Hospitals are still worried for the need of nurses. [via]