If healthcare facilities are ... interested in retaining their ... nurses, [they should enable] these nurses to not only plan their work and time off, but [ensure] that those schedules are implemented on a reliable basis. The Editorial 1 in the April 2007 issue of Critical Care Nurse addressed the topic of how experienced critical care nurses might be retained within the profession, summarized existing strategies proposed from literature and discourse on this topic, and invited readers to complete a brief online survey on this topic so their priorities on this important issue could be captured and communicated. This is a report on the findings from that survey.
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