Nurse Staffing and the Relationship to Job Satisfaction And Retention.

The article presents a study on the relationships between nurse staffing, job satisfaction and nurse retention in the acute care hospital setting. It discusses the role of improved nurse staffing in positive patient outcomes, nurse retention and cost savings for health care organizations, the influence of job satisfaction on nurse turnover and study findings suggesting the need to improve nurse staffing once the economy improves to be able to prevent an exodus of nurses discontented at work.