The UK has a serious shortage of nurses and for the first time in recent nursing history 27% more UK registrants left the register in 2016-2017 than joined it. Emergency nurses are particularly affected as their environment is unpredictable, fast-paced and increasingly crowded. This article reports the results of a study of a successful initiative to retain senior emergency nurses in a London trust.
Emergency Nurse. doi: 10.7748/en.2019.e1840
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and has been checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestNone declared
Dawood M, Gamston J (2019) An intervention to improve retention in emergency nursing. Emergency Nurse. doi: 10.7748/en.2019.e1840
Published online: 29 January 2019
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