Nursing project

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Week 6 Midweek Assignment

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The issue of nurse turnover continues to be the key problem that affects the successful delivery of healthcare services to patients. The effects of a high rate of nurse turnover are not only felt by the patients but also by nurses. Nurse turnover leads to an increase in the nurse workload in the healthcare facility as a result of inadequate or nurse shortages. The nurse turnover rates lead to the increase in the reported cases of medication errors and this is linked to the low nurse-patient ratio thus leaving many patients unattended. Therefore, the research proposal is guided by the objective of finding out the effects of the nurses' retention methods on the reduction of the nurse turnover rates in healthcare facilities (Halter, 2017). In this paper, the focusing is to present the sampling or setting; the sampling strategy to be adopted for the research; and the type of research design that will be used.

Sampling and settings

The selected settings are the HCA-affiliated Central Florida Regional Hospital (CFRH) for example the Fawcett Memorial Hospital, Port Charlotte in Florida, and Las Palmas Medical Centers found in El Paso. These facilities have been on the headline as a result of their employees especially nurses holding informational picketing (Dewanto & Wardhani, 2018). The event was common in 2018 as nurses' picket to urge the management of these facilities to address the issue of registered nurse turnover rates and to ensure that there is consistent compliance with the staffing grids. The picketing is purposely aimed at improving the recruitment and retention of the experienced registered nurses to ensure that there is maximum patient care.

A sample of 200 nurse participants and a total of 10 human resources from the three facilities will be targeted as the study participants. The information collected from these participants will be important in understanding the real situation in these facilities concerning the techniques that the management of these facilities are employing to retain the workers and how the nurses are feeling about these retention strategies (Dewanto & Wardhani, 2018).

Sampling strategy

The sampling method that will be adopted in this case is the criterion sampling for both nurses and the human resource managers or the nurse managers. This strategy is involving the identification of the specific criteria of importance and articulating the criteria. For the case of this research proposal, the sampling criterion will be based on the identification of the nurse managers or the human resource managers in the nursing department with hiring responsibilities through using their leadership qualities for hiring for the nurses (Halter, 2017). The targeted nurses must also be registered and have worked in the facility for not less than one year.

Research Design

The author will adopt a non-experimental design that involves a survey research method to help in the collection of data to respond to the research question. A survey research method would be important in ensuring that both primary and secondary data are collected from the targeted facilities. The success of this research method will be based on listing different questions to help in the collection of specific data from both nurses and the human resource management of the facilities. The survey methods will be conducted in the form of a phone call, emailing, and through the internet (Halter, 2017). Data collected will also include the geographical background of the participants for example the gender, age, the number of years of employment, position within the facility, the organization they are working for, and their initials to help in concealing their identities.

References

Dewanto, A., Wardhani, V. (2018). Nurse turnover and perceived causes and consequences: a preliminary study at private hospitals in Indonesia. BMC Nurs 17, 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0317-8

Halter, M., Pelone, F., Boiko, O., Beighton, C., Harris, R., Gale, J., ... & Drennan, V. (2017). Interventions to reduce adult nursing turnover: a systematic review of systematic reviews. The open nursing journal, 11, 108.