With turnover rates for nursing personnel in nursing homes documented as high
and assumed to be detrimental for quality resident care, it is important to identify
strategies that nursing home professionals may use to manage such rates. This
article does so, using as a base the major findings of a 1978 study of annual turnover
rates for nursing personnel and a 1979 follow-up study of aggregate resident
outcomes for 122 North Carolina nursing homes. Strategies are offered for documenting and managing turnover rates, as well as for considering their potential
positive effects.
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