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Identify organizational, operational, and compensation strategies that healthcare facilities can deploy to retain experienced nurses nearing retirement age.

July 1, 2006Journal of Healthcare Management

The Aging Nursing Workforce: How to Retain Experienced Nurses

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JCJeremye D. CohenCapital Health

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Analysis reveals targeted operational and compensation strategies for retaining late-career nurses, highlighting the need to support managers and alleviate physical and mental stress.

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Identify organizational, operational, and compensation strategies that healthcare facilities can deploy to retain experienced nurses nearing retirement age.
Evaluation of workplace culture, administrative support, and operational adjustments needed to mitigate nurse turnover.
Examination of employee retention drivers, including job embeddedness, physical and mental workplace stress, and compensation models.
Strengthening job satisfaction and job embeddedness while minimizing occupational mental and physical stress encourages nurses to delay retirement.
Nurse managers serve as the frontline for retention efforts but routinely lack administrative support, recognition, and accountability structures.
Effective organizational retention incentives include flexible scheduling, experience-based pay scales, and tailored benefit packages suited for older staff.

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Jeremye D. Cohen (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8367b09961a844765f3e51 https://doi.org/10.1097/00115514-200607000-00006

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Analysis reveals targeted operational and compensation strategies for retaining late-career nurses, highlighting the need to support managers and alleviate physical and mental stress.

The Aging Nursing Workforce: How to Retain Experienced Nurses

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The Aging Nursing Workforce: How to Retain Experienced Nurses

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