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Library & Knowledge Services: Recruitment & Retention in Health Care

This guide provides research-based information and resources to support health care leaders in addressing recruitment, retention, and burnout in hospital staff. It is a mix of published research and grey literature that describes interventions applied in similar contexts and systems that could provide insight to addressing the health care workforce crisis. [this page is currently under construction]

Recruitment & Retention

Click here for RESEARCH ARTICLES on Recruitment and Retention

PubMed search: Recruitment & Retention [in progress]

Addressing Moral Distress & Burnout

Click here for RESEARCH ARTICLES on Moral Distress & Burnout Interventions

PubMed search: Moral Distress & Burnout Interventions (broad)

LINKS

National Academy of Medicine. Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.

Call M, Locke A. How to Support your Teams During Omicron Surge. 14 January 2022.

AACN. Moral Distress in Nursing: What you need to know. [no date]

AACN. Recognizing and Addressing Moral Distress. 2020.

GREY LITERATURE on Recruitment, Retention & Burnout

GENERAL

McKinsey Health Institute. Beyond burnout: What helps and what doesn't. 07 Oct 2022.
McKinsey Institute. Around the world, nurses say meaningful work keeps them going. 12 May 2022.
McKinsey Health Institute. Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem? 27 May 2022.

UK

Supporting strategies encouraging staff retention. 18 July 2022.
Handbook: Improving staff retention. 02 Mar 2022.
Retention interventions examples. [no date]
Improving retention at all stages of nurses' careers: United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. 11 Aug 2020.
Looking after our people: Retention featured case studies. [no date]
Evidence based approaches to workforce wellbeing. 08 Nov 2022.
Health and wellbeing interventions in healthcare. Oct 2020.

AUSTRALIA

Should I stay or should I go? Australia's nurse retention dilemma. 23 Sept 2022.
Retention: The allied health employee lifecycle. 02 Sept 2022.