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Study: Nurse turnover not highest priority

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008

 July 9, 2007

While nurse turnover can cost hospitals as much as $5.4 million per year, hospital executives typically are working harder on other issues, including quality improvement, reimbursement problems and uncompensated care, a new study shows. The Pricewaterhouse Cooper study, which included data from 237 hospital respondents, found nurse and physician staffing were sixth and seventh, respectively, on a list of key issues cited. On average, executives reported temporary nurses were staffing an average of 5 percent of hospitals' nursing hours.

To get more data from the study:
- read this Modern Healthcare article (reg. req.)