Local 5004 Member Update: Staffing, Vacancies and Turnover

CURRENT TRENDS IN NURSING
DECEMBER 2021

Nursing today is about:

• rushing to learn new technologies and medications
• inability to provide safe patient care
• inability to have a quality conversation with patients/families
• lack of staffing
• a revolving door of recruitment and retention
• an abundance of agency nurses working & the ramifications
• wages
• accommodate, accommodate, accommodate
  • patients
  • families
  • doctors
  • management

The 2021 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report outlines the aforementioned as reasons why nurses leave their institutions. In fact, 24.1% of nurses leave with just 1 year of tenure. Let’s compare EHMC to state levels.

• vacancy rate – EHMC currently 17%; State 12%
• turnover rate on medical-surgical units – State is 17.1%. EHMC units:
  • 3 Cohen – 25%
  • 4 Dean – 23%
  • 6 Dean – 33.3%
  • 7 Dean – 75.9%
  • 8 Dean – 50%

AS A UNION CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE?
MORE TO COME – WATCH FOR IT!