Nurse managers who work together purposefully with every registered nurse on their staff have decrease turnover, with month-to-month interactions corresponding to recognitions, check-ins or corrective actions driving a 7-percentage-point enchancment within the staff’s annual turnover charge, based on a new report by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and Laudio Insights. The report additionally evaluates key components influencing a nurse supervisor’s capability for significant staff engagement, such because the quantity of people that instantly report back to them, broadly generally known as a supervisor’s span of management. Inpatient nurse managers who oversee 78 folks or extra persistently have above-average RN turnover charges, primarily based on information from Laudio’s software program platform for frontline leaders.

“Nurse managers have one of the hardest jobs in health care,” said AONL CEO Robyn Begley, AHA’s chief nursing officer and senior vp of workforce. “They have 24-hour responsibility caring for their nursing team and patients. Nurse leaders can use this data to make operational adjustments in real time to support these vital frontline leaders.”