An intervention to improve retention in emergency nursing
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An intervention to improve retention in emergency nursing

Mary Dawood Consultant nurse, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Emergency Directorate, London, England
Julia Gamston Consultant nurse, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London, England

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 review

This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and has been checked for plagiarism using automated software

Correspondence

mary.dawood@nhs.net

Conflict of interest

None 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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