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Staff turnover

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

nounCommon term

In healthcare management, staff turnover means: The rate at which employees leave an organisation and have to be replaced, usually shown as a percentage of staff per year.

In Turkish: personel devir hızı, çalışan devir oranı, işten ayrılma oranı

How it is used

High turnover raises recruitment and training costs and can affect the quality of care. Managers track turnover by profession and ward, hold exit interviews and work on staff retention, the other side of the same problem.

Example sentences

  1. Staff turnover in the emergency department reached 22% last year.

  2. Flexible shifts helped us bring staff turnover down.

Common collocations

  • high staff turnover
  • staff turnover rate
  • reduce staff turnover
  • staff retention
  • burnoutA state of physical and emotional exhaustion caused by long-term stress at work, often with a feeling of distance from the job and lower effectiveness.
  • workforce planningPlanning how many staff, with which skills, an organisation will need in the future, and how it will recruit, train and keep them.
  • staffingThe number and type of staff working in a hospital, ward or shift, and the work of making sure there are enough of them with the right skills.
  • agency staffTemporary workers supplied by a staffing agency to fill gaps in a hospital's own workforce, usually at a higher cost per hour.

More terms: Staffing and Workforce

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