{"title":"Salary reductions: controversial approaches.","authors":"D M Finney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this period of restructuring, salary reductions have increasingly become a choice for the manager facing a severely decreased budget. This nurse compares several strategies for accomplishing reductions and encourages managers to pick ones with the least disadvantages for patients and staff.</p>","PeriodicalId":79370,"journal":{"name":"Recruitment, retention & restructuring report","volume":"8 4","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18653145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating the role of the retention program coordinator.","authors":"L Fulton, N Richards","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During healthcare restructuring, nurse satisfaction can suffer. The following article describes how nurse executives and human resource professionals can implement a full- or part-time retention coordinator role for their healthcare facility. These authors describe how a retention coordinator can use formal and informal meetings to keep track of nurse satisfaction and develop strategies that identify and solve nurse satisfaction problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79370,"journal":{"name":"Recruitment, retention & restructuring report","volume":"8 4","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18653146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overemphasized use of GPA for admission decisions.","authors":"W B Young, M J Kim","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When nursing schools have too many applicants for the number of students they can take, many use the cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) as an important factor in the selection process. However, this practice continues to exclude students, many from minorities, which need to be included in preparing nurses to care for all populations. These authors describe how to use GPA only as an initial preliminary screening tool to determine qualified applicants, but not as a factor in the final decision in selecting students.</p>","PeriodicalId":79370,"journal":{"name":"Recruitment, retention & restructuring report","volume":"8 2","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18653144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for increasing nursing involvement in facility planning.","authors":"K H Clark","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental conditions and respect as the direct patient caregiver are important to nurse satisfaction. This author describes strategies which increase the nurses participation in redesigning their unit so that the new design helps them provide efficient nursing care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79370,"journal":{"name":"Recruitment, retention & restructuring report","volume":"8 2","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18653143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for interviewing and hiring nursing assistants.","authors":"L Tibbles","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During this time of skill-mix changes, restructuring of health care, and successful retention of Registered Nurses, most of the open positions in nursing are for nursing assistants. This author, an experienced clinical coordinator, describes how she adapts interviewing techniques to assist in selecting the best nursing assistant candidate.</p>","PeriodicalId":79370,"journal":{"name":"Recruitment, retention & restructuring report","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18745178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}