Job Embeddedness as a Nurse Retention Strategy for Rural Hospitals

The author explores job embeddedness as an effective retention plan strategy for rural hospitals with a focus on nurse retention in rural hospitals.

Abstract

RN turnover is expensive and disruptive for rural hospitals, constraining finances, impacting patient care, and stressing remaining nurses. Recent investigations have described a promising new construct related to employee retention: job embeddedness. Leaders in nonhealthcare organizations have adopted a job-embeddedness model to guide retention strategies and experienced a subsequent reduction in turnover. The author explores job embeddedness as an effective retention plan strategy for rural hospitals.