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What
YOU the Employer can do
Provide
a safe work environment
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Employ adequate staff to deliver quality care
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Develop policies to prevent exposure to workplace hazards,
such as violence, latex, sharps, chemicals and allergenic
materials
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Provide safe parking
Provide
a healthy work environment
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Provide adequate space for nursing care activities, including
ergonomically appropriate equipment at the bedside and nurses
station
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Assure space and time for nurses' personal needs, including
separate eating areas, lockers, lounges, and quiet rooms
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Utilize broad spectrum lighting and minimize use of fluorescent
lights
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Incorporate healing-effective paint colors; practice noise
control
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Provide stress management opportunities, including complimentary
fitness facilities and on-unit chair massage
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Provide support services for personal/family maintenance,
e.g., on-site day care, sick child care, elder care etc; dry
cleaning/laundry, meal pick-ups, copy machines, domestic service
referrals, help hot lines
Improve
compensation and benefits
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Develop salary models based on general industry standards,
educational levels of RNs, demonstrated competence, certification
and years of service
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Offer a menu of benefits from which nurses can choose: performance
or incentive based salary, vacation time, education support,
health insurance, retirement plans, elder care, day care
Recognize
nursing excellence
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Provide professional rewards, educational opportunities, journal
subscriptions, memberships in professional organizations
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Avoid "trinkets"
Reach
out to the community
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Participate in community efforts to recruit young people into
professional nursing, for example, "adopt a school" programs,
health career clubs, career days, in-house tours, and intern-externship
programs
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Advertise recruitment efforts and employment positions by
expanding leadership, mentorship, and accountability
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Encourage shared governance practice and professional in newspapers,
professional journals, culturally diverse publications and
on the Internet
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Promote and fund scholarships for nursing education
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