Fostering Professional Nursing Careers in Hospitals: The Role of Staff Development, Part 2

This is the second part of an article identifying staff development educators' potential influence on job satisfaction and retention of hospital nurses. Here Sovie takes us beyond the orientation and inservice education issues she addressed in last month's JONA, to present the challenge of staff development for career advancement. Readers will benefit from her suggestions of how to meet those challenges and redistribute resources to help create "magnet" hospitals which attract both patients and excellent practitioners.