Hospitals in Florida are employing several strategies to both retain their nurses and recruit more to mitigate the ongoing shortage that is straining the healthcare profession.
These incentives include sign-on bonuses, significant increases in their base salary, and an evaluation of their workplace environment, which looks at ways to maximize the overall team that supports care at the bedside within the hospital, leverage technology to reduce administrative burdens on nurses and other staff, and efforts to look at career pathways to encourage nursing assistants or nurse technicians to become registered nurses, said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association.
