For both groups, the majority of turnover was voluntary (employee-initiated). Specific reasons for turnover were largely consistent across the two groups, with the most common reason being a new job or new opportunity.
The commentary considers reasons for turnover such as burnout and generational diversity, and highlights the importance of a team work approach to address the issue of turnover.
There are other important reasons for turnover that should be considered by ICU leaders, and these include burnout and generational diversity.
However, it is important not to assume that reasons for turnover are the same among different groups of health care providers and that staff turnover is something to be avoided at all costs.
The review from Laporta and coworkers [ 1] also highlights the importance of ICU leadership working with frontline staff to create a vision and strategy that addresses the core reasons for turnover.
The facts that the main reasons for turnover of health workers in these districts seem to be deaths and retirements as opposed to resignations or requests for transfers, and that most recent losses have been replaced, suggest that recruitment and retention in these districts are not without some success.
Money is one of the least common reasons for turnover (lower pay scale positions are sometimes exceptions) so if you are experiencing a high turnover, throwing money at the problem will not make it go away (although it might hide the problem for a while).
The 42% turnover, alas, is higher than what you would expect in an index fund; the main reason for such turnover is the constant reshuffling of the Russell index.
Hurd added that the main reason for the turnover, however, has been financial, not creative: "Those deals are all two-year deals.
Contractual temporary positions are the main reason for high turnover of lab and IDSP staff in our study.
Job dissatisfaction has been cited as the primary reason for high turnover [ 6, 7] and absenteeism [ 6, 8], which in turn poses a threat to organizations' capacities to provide quality service and meet the needs of customers [ 9].
