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

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.

The determinants and consequences of adult nursing staff turnover: a systematic review of systematic reviews.

Background: Nurses leaving their jobs and the profession are an issue of international concern, with supply-demand gaps for nurses reported to be widening. There is a large body of existing literature, much of which is already in review form. In order to advance the usefulness of the literature for nurse and human resource managers, we undertook an overview (review of systematic reviews).

Retaining nurses in metropolitan areas: insights from senior nurse and human resource managers.

Aim: To investigate the views of senior nurse and human resource managers of strategies to retain hospital nurses in a metropolitan area.

Background: Against a global shortage, retaining nurses is a management imperative for the quality of hospital services.

Method: Semi-structured interviews, thematically analysed.

Student nurse selection and predictability of academic success: The Multiple Mini Interview project.

Background: With recent reports of public enquiries into failure to care, universities are under pressure to ensure that candidates selected for undergraduate nursing programmes demonstrate academic potential as well as characteristics and values such as compassion, empathy and integrity. The Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) was used in one university as a way of ensuring that candidates had the appropriate numeracy and literacy skills as well as a range of communication, empathy, decision-making and problem-solving skills as well as ethical insights and integrity, initiative and team-work.

Objectives: To ascertain whether there is evidence of bias in MMIs (gender, age, nationality and location of secondary education) and to determine the extent to which the MMI is predictive of academic success in nursing.

The experiences of student nurses on placements with practice nurses: A pilot study.

To prepare the registered nurse of tomorrow in the United Kingdom (UK) to care for patients in general practice (GP)-led services, today's student nurses need to have the opportunity to experience placements with practice nurses to enable them to make positive career choices to become practice nurses in the future. The role of the practice nurse is described in the article. As a pilot project, seventeen students undertook placements with practice nurses in one of seven GP practices selected by the London GP Deanery and the university as having fulfilled the criteria to support student nurses in placements.

Students' first year experience of a BSc (Hons) in nursing: a pilot study.

Background: All new nurses in England from 2013 will be educated at the point of registration to the degree level. A study was undertaken into the first-year experience of one cohort on the new degree programme at one university.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate nursing students' experience during the first year of the degree programme in terms of their engagement with the programme, its impact and value and their overall satisfaction.