@article{IR,
      recid = {1416888},
      author = {Meek, Lauren},
      title = {Critical Care Nurse Retention in the Intensive Care Unit  and the Impact of COVID-19},
      number = {IR},
      abstract = {The critical care setting has the higher rate of turnover  more than any other specialty setting in the country. Nurse  retention in the critical care environment is becoming a  significant problem in the hospital setting and with  COVID-19, the need for critical care nurses is greater now  than ever before. Turnover is a significant problem in the  critical care environment and can lead to a negative  outcomes for patients. Empowerment of nurses can help to  reduce the impact of role strain and can be beneficial for  retaining nurses in all care settings. Leadership needs to  come up with incentives to help improve job satisfaction in  the critical care setting. Nurses lacking satisfaction in  their career can lead to increase incidence of burnout and  turnover. Loses due to turnover can prove very costly to  the overall growth of an intensive care unit. COVID-19 has  had a significant impact on the critical care setting.  Nurses have been pushed to the breaking point every day due  to the volume of high acuity patients and the lack of  adequate staffing to help support nurses to provide their  best care. In the Evansville area, nurses have been  consistently understaffed and the availability of ICU beds  are harder to come by. Some units have been sending pray  cards and other words of encouragement to ICU nurses and  some nurses have been flexed to the intensive care unit to  help to improve staffing. It will be interesting to see how  retention and job satisfaction are impacted as we progress  through the COVID-19 pandemic and how leadership works to  keep nurses feeling empowered during this challenging  time.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1416888},
}