Date of Conferral
2019
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
School
Nursing
Advisor
Cathleen Colleran
Abstract
Nurses may experience job stress and burnout due to the amount of hours worked and demanding schedules. At one hospital, nurse turnover rates were high in medical-surgical units. Surveys and interviews conducted by hospital administration found that the bedside nurses were dissatisfied with scheduling practices and that this dissatisfaction could lead to heightened turnover. The purpose of this project was to determine if the implementation of a self-scheduling model would decrease nurse turnover on a medical-surgical nursing unit. This quality improvement project focused on facilitating the empowerment of nurses through a self-scheduling model; it followed the quality improvement steps of the Deming approach of Plan-Do-Check-Act. During the pilot, turnover rates of the unit that implemented the self-scheduling model were reviewed 30 days pre- and 30 days post-implementation. The project results showed a decrease in turnover rates from 12.96% to 10.00% on the unit where the model was implemented. This project has a social impact by allowing nurses to participate in a self-scheduling model to have workâlife balance, because the work environment plays a significant role in encouraging engagement and decrease in turnover. Implementing this model in other units may result in decreased nurse turnover for the hospital.
Recommended Citation
Fuentes, Rebecca, "Implementing a Self-Scheduling Model to Decrease Nurse Turnover in Medical-Surgical Nursing" (2019). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 7541.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7541
