Impact of Nurses Turnover on Organization Performance

This survey based descriptive research work has been undertaken with the objectives of analysing impact of turnover of nurses on organization performance and offering suitable suggestions to control and prevent turnover of nurses. The study has adopted both convenient and judgement sampling methods and sampled 30 administrators from 30 leading private multi speciality hospitals in Tirunelveli city, Tamilnadu, India. Primary data have been collected by a constructed questionnaire along with personal discussion. Percentage method has been administered to analyse profile of the respondents. Both Mean and Standard deviation have been employed to analyse impact of turnover of nurses on organization performance. The research has found excessive work load for remaining staff, delay in daily routine procedures (e.g. transfer of the patient to operation theatre, ICU and wards), poor patient satisfaction and complaints from patients (as newly joined staffs take long time to cope with routine procedures) are foremost impact of turnover of nurses in private hospitals. The study has given suitable suggestions to control and prevent turnover of nurses.