Interventions to Reduce Adult Nursing Turnover: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurse turnover is an issue of concern in health care systems internationally. Understanding which interventions are effective to reduce turnover rates is important to managers and health care organisations. Despite a plethora of reviews of such interventions, strength of evidence is hard to determine.

Objective

We aimed to review literature on interventions to reduce turnover in nurses working in the adult health care services in developed economies.

Method

We conducted an overview (systematic review of systematic reviews) using the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, CINAHL plus and SCOPUS and forward searching. We included reviews published between 1990 and January 2015 in English. We carr

SUBMITTER: Halter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725565 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature