Idaho Alliance of Leaders in Nursing

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Idaho Alliance of Leaders in Nursing

• 2007 Survey Results

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Outline

• Nursing Program Directors Survey
• Vacancy, Turnover, and Projection Survey
• RN Satisfaction and Retention Survey

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Overview of Program Director Survey

• Data collected in August 2007
• Data collected from directors of all programs
  except BYU-I

State-funded BS programs BSU ISU LCSC
State-funded ADRN programs CSI EITC NIC ISU Sella
nd College
Private programs Apollo NNU
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RN Applications, Admits, Grads
Source Idaho Board of Nursing Statistical Report
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LPN Applications, Admits, Grads
Source Idaho Board of Nursing Statistical Report
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Students Admitted by Degree Type
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RNs Employed in Idaho after graduation
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RN 2006 Graduate Employment Type
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LPN Employment Type
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First Nursing Degree
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Faculty Salary
Although paid for 9 months, faculty work 11
hours/week on average in the summer. In
addition, nearly all programs expect faculty to
work evenings or nights, and half expect faculty
to work weekends (supervising clinical rotations
or teaching classes).
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Faculty Age Distribution
55
45
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Summary

• The good news
• Programs are growing (slightly)
• Faculty salaries are higher (slightly)
• The bad news
• More nurses are needed
• Program capacity is still too small
• Faculty are aging retiring
• Still lt 2 applicants for each faculty position

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Outline

• Nursing Program Directors Survey
• Vacancy, Turnover, and Projection Survey
• RN Satisfaction and Retention Survey

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Purpose Data Collection

• Purpose Update vacancy and turnover rate info,
  salary info, and projections from 2006 survey
• November 2007 Survey mailed to 976 employers of
  nurses (per DOL list)
• 280 responses (overall response rate 29)
• 41 did not employ nurses 239 contributed data

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Responses
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Response Rates
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Vacancy Rates
(9)
(5)
3.8 (5)
(9)
(6)
NOTE Sample selection used different method
from 2006, also different season, so numbers may
not be comparable.
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Turnover Rates
(13) combined
(8)
(17) combined
(13)
(25)
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Salaries
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Projections Respondents only
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Outline

• Nursing Program Directors Survey
• Vacancy, Turnover, Projection Survey
• RN Satisfaction and Retention Survey

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RN Satisfaction Survey

• Sent to all licensed RNs in Idaho with license
  renewal in Spring 2007
• Responses received from 9364 individuals
• 85 response rate on mailed renewals
• 18 response rate from on-line renewals
• Overall 71 response rate

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Percent of Nurses Working in Nursing
1600 licensed RNs currently not working in a
nursing or nursing-related position.
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What would bring you back to nursing?
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Planned Retirements by Setting
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Opinions about current job

• Please fill in the bubble corresponding to your
  opinions about your current primary nursing
  position.
• (Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Somewhat
  Disagree, Strongly Disagree, NA)
• My immediate supervisor is supportive
• I am satisfied with my overall workload
• I have an appropriate level of autonomy in my
  job
• (12 statements total)

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Agree salary/benefits fair
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Desire to stay in current job

• Now indicate how each of the following factors
  impacts your desire to stay or leave your current
  job.
• (Strong Influence to Stay, Weak Influence
  to Stay, Neutral,
• Weak Influence to Leave, Strong Influence
  to Leave, NA)
• Relationship with immediate supervisor
• Current workload
• (12 similar statements to previous group, plus
• Geographic location
• Physical demands of job
• Personal reasons

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Summary

• Nearly 1000 RNs in Idaho have active licenses but
  are not working in nursing
• Factors related to flexibility of schedules,
  ability to work part time, etc. appear most
  important in bringing nurses back to work.
• Many nurses indicate planned retirements in the
  next 5 years, especially nurse faculty and RNs
  working in nursing homes.
• Overall satisfaction is high, but there is
  definite room for improvement in job stress and
  workload issues (also salary/benefits)

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Thank You

• Complete reports will be available at
• www.nurseleaders.org
• Or contact Susan Ault
• 208-367-1171
• sault_at_nurseleaders.org

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Questions?