Essay On Nurse Turnover

Rhetorical Analysis of a Scholarly Article Proposal Healthcare has become one of the most demanding professions a person can go into. As Laureen J. Hayes discusses in her article, Nurse Turnover, the demands placed on nurses has reduced the amount of people willing and able to do this job, effecting the entirety of health care. Since Hayes knows her target audience, she is able to determine the most effective way to express her point. Implementing research and studies done on the topic improves the ethos of the article. With the improved credibility, people are more willing to trust the author and the purpose of the paper will be better understood. The purpose of the article is “to examine the current state of knowledge about the scope of the nurse turnover problem, definitions of turnover, factors considered to be determinants of nurse turnover, turnover costs and of most importance to the authors, the impact of turnover on patient, nurse, and system outcomes,” (Hayes, 238). Hayes uses his

The varying definitions of turnover, “have impeded a clear understanding of associated financial costs, as replacement cost estimations vary according to location and components included in the measure,” yet there is a definite hindrance in the indirect costs of the nurse turnover (244). Another effect the nurse turnover has had is on nurses who have continued in the profession. It has been shown that “as hours of care per patient day increased, so did the overtime nurses were asked to work and the incidence of missed shifts due to illness,” meaning the less nurses available, the more likely other nurses are going to have to work overtime or become ill due to the amount of work they have done. In order to accurately portray the current situation, Hayes implemented many different research studies done on the topic of the nursing turnover. These improved the credibility, or ethos, of her