Running Head: RETAINING CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANTS 1

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Retaining Certified Nursing Assistants

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What are the four main reasons CNAs leave their jobs?

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) contributes quality care deliverables but their high

turnover costs a lot to the various healthcare organization. There are various reasons where

CNAs leave their jobs containing poor wages and benefits, inadequate training and education,

lack of respect, and short staffing. Poor wages and benefits restrict nursing motivation to serve

patient which leaves them to quit their jobs. Secondly, inadequate training and education cannot

deliver high performance regarding their roles and responsibilities of long-term care. Thirdly,

lack of respect loss integrity and values of nursing job that’s why nurses leave their jobs. Lastly,

short staffing puts burden on nursing where they do overtime and unbalance work and life which

creates challenges to strive life and job [ CITATION DrK08 \l 1033 ].

Using the answer from the previous question, design a program to retain CNAs in your

long-term care facility. Remember to provide citations for any sources used.

First of all, empowerment focused staffing practices should be taken to enhances nurses'

job satisfaction as well as stability. For this reason, cultural change movement would be taken in

response to staff empowerment practices. The cultural change specifically focused on improving

care and quality for nursing home residents. Thus, staffing empowerment recognized guiding

principle to develop collaborative decision-making, close relationships, and homelike

atmosphere [ CITATION Cla181 \l 1033 ]. The other retention methods are training and development

of nurses, rewards and recognition programs, and supervising CNAs in daily staff meetings to

address their issues promptly [ CITATION Har17 \l 1033 ](Page.184).

State how your initiative resolves two or more of the four main reasons CNAs leave the

profession.
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Among all of them, the staff empowerment practices unleash nurse stability and

satisfaction. When nurses become empowered, their performance will ultimately increase and

become loyal to the organization. Thus, staff empowerment practices can help to manage staff

shortages effectively. Secondly, empowerment among nurses develop their integrity, equality,

accountability, and responsible culture cultivates. When every staff member becomes

responsibility and accountable for their actions, it will develop trust level and respect to honor

every nurse decision incorporated.

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References

Berridge, C., Tyler, D. A., & Miller, S. C. (2018). Staff Empowerment Practices anCNA

Retention: Findings From a Nationally Representative Nursing Home Culture Change

Survey. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 37(4), 419–434.

Culp, D. K., Ramey, D. S., & Karlman, M. S. (2008). Iowa Certified Nursing Assistants Study:

Self-Reported Ratings of the Nursing Home Work Environment. Research in

Gerontological Nursing, 1(2), 87–96.

Harris, M. D. (2017). Home Healthcare Administration. Jones & Barret Learning.