The Pizza Just Won't Cut It: Hitting The Reset Button On How We Think About Nursing Retention

07/08/21 • 42 min

Nursing morale is at an all time low. How do we keep nurses and other frontline practitioners happy on their jobs? What does it take to keep nurses happy and retain them? Unfortunately, this year- the pizza is just not going to cut it. In this episode, Sara and Amie examine what it takes to really retain nurses. We discuss innovative solutions and suggestions that may keep your healthcare staff happy and continue coming into work. We also discuss the harsh realities nurses face trying to stay healthy while at work.

"Start the retention process when employees are still open to staying, not after they already told you they are leaving".

"You do not build a business, you build people--and then the people build the business".

Resource: Global Shortage of Nurses, McGill 2019

https://www.mcgill.ca/nursing/files/nursing/nurse_shortages.pdf

"Start the retention process when employees are still open to staying, not after they already told you they are leaving".

"You do not build a business, you build people--and then the people build the business".

Resource: Global Shortage of Nurses, McGill 2019

https://www.mcgill.ca/nursing/files/nursing/nurse_shortages.pdf

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Giving Gritty Nurses a Platform to be Bold: Media, Healthcare & Wisdom with Dr. Brian Goldman

The Padawan, becomes the Jedi! In this episode, Amie and Sara interview the host of CBC's White Coat, Black Art and The Dose Dr. Brian Goldman. Dr. Goldman and the CBC crew was the FIRST to reach out to us, to hear our stories and elevate frontline nursing voices. We discuss how he got started in radio, successes and failures, Netflix, hierarchy in medicine, speaking out in healthcare and combating health misinformation. There is so much to take away from this episode- this is a must listen!

Listen to Dr. Brain Goldman at:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/410-the-dose

Find Dr. Goldman on:

Twitter @NightshiftMD, @cbcwhitecoat,

Bio from:

http://doctorbriangoldman.com/about/

Brian Goldman, MD, is one of those rare individuals with great success in not one but several adrenaline-pumping careers. Goldman is a highly regarded emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is also the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s award-winning radio show “White Coat, Black Art”, where he takes listeners behind the scenes of hospitals and doctor’s offices. Goldman unpacks and demystifies what goes on inside medicine’s sliding doors – with edgy topics that include the whistle blowing in health care, burnout among health professionals, racism in health care and how to getting to the head of the line in health care.

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Name a Truly Famous Nurse- And no, you cannot say Flo!

Name a movie star that is a famous nurse! Name a nurse figure regularly seen in news media as medical correspondent! Name a nurse who has a TV show? Name a nurse who is known all over the world, who hasn't been dead for the past 100 years! Stumped? We are too. Where are all the famous nurses? In this episode, Amie and Sara scrape the surface as to why there are not more famous nurses. Are we not medical experts? Why are we not more notable? What do you think? We will tell you what we think, of course with GRIT.