One of the Biggest Challenges  is RETENTION.

• How do we support nurses so they continue the spark and desire they originally possessed when they first decided to become a nurse?
  

• How do we minimize the high costs of retaining quality nurses?
  

• How do we ensure that the growing lack of nurses is stemmed so that everyone in our country can enjoy the many benefits of having quality medical care?
  

We at KNECnet, LLC (Keeping Nurses Engaged Community Network) strongly believe that the answers to these questions lie in the assurance that nurses are Recognized, Appreciated and Acknowledged – all crucial and critical elements to the retention of quality nurses.

We’ve developed a training program that brings a “Revelation Revolution” to nurses to provide a new way of looking at the challenging moments that occur every single day of their work lives. By utilizing the “revelations” and the tools, nurses, nurse managers and administrators learn to Recognize, Appreciate and Acknowledge vital nurse team members, lifting them up and becoming an important, essential piece of what keeps nursing staff satisfied with their career choice – and in the positions we all need them to be.

The training employs tenets of emotional intelligence training, proven to be transformative in their presentation and recall. But KNECnet, LLC adds another element of this “Revelation Revolution” that reinforces and embeds the training to ensure that the tools are not only reinforced, but used on a regular basis. It is this element that creates REAL change for not only the attitudes of nurses and support staff, but for the work climate.

This one element is coaching. Coaching has a track record of reinforcing skills taught through training; without it, the training concepts remain on the page, in a binder, on a shelf – forgotten and unused. By providing coaching, nurses find regular reinforcement of the skills learned and actually employ them to address the day-to-day challenges they face. The degree of success skyrockets.

With a professional team that is dedicated to improving, enhancing and reinforcing the work climate for your nurses, KNECnet, LLC can make a difference for not only your nursing staff, but also for your bottom line with satisfied, happy nurses who, in turn, create satisfied, happy patients.

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What does a low nurse retention rate cost?

• Vacancy costs — agency nurses, overtime, closed beds, hospital diversions...
• Advertising, recruitment and hiring
• Orientation and training
• Decreased productivity
• Potential patient errors, compromised quality of care
• Decreased facility reputation
• Loss of organizational knowledge
• Poor work environment and culture, distrust and dissatisfaction
• Termination costs
• Additional turnover

In December 2009, workforce analysts with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projected that more than 581,500 new RN positions will be created through 2018, which would increase the size of the RN workforce by 22%. Employment of RNs is expected to grow much faster than the average when compared to all other professions.

However, employment of RNs will not grow at the same rate in every industry. The projected growth rates for RNs in the industries with the highest employment of these workers are: