MEET OUR MEMBERS: Jayne Van Brunt Helps Nurses Design More Sustainable Career Paths
The Great Resignation is an issue to everyone who cares about social responsibility. Nurses are quitting because working no longer makes sense. How can we fix it? One of our own is working on it.
“Any given hospital in the United States leaves a destructive footprint,” says Socially Responsible Coaching Alliance member Jayne Van Brunt.” Waste is evident in every corner, from the supply packaging and tons of cardboard to the medical misuse of exorbitant tests completely unnecessary to practice good medicine. I am working to coach nurses to be the voice and to advocate for change because without a massive uprising of the 1 million nurses left, I fear patient care will be left to the CEOs.”
According to the "2021 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report," nurses have had it.
In this report, 226 facilities from 37 states participated and were asked to report data from January to December 2020. The survey covered 501,764 healthcare workers and 144,300 registered nurses.
Here are 3 important facts about the cost of nurse turnover, by the numbers:
1. Since 2016, the average hospital turned over about 90 percent of its workforce and 83 percent of its RN staff.
2. In 2020, the turnover rate for staff RNs was at 18.7 percent, a 2.8 percentage point increase from 2019.
3. The average cost of turnover for a bedside RN is $40,038 and ranges from $28,400 to $51,700, causing a hospital to lose $3.6 million to $6.5 million per year. Each percent change in RN turnover costs or saves the average hospital $270,800 per year.
This is where Jayne comes in.
“For five years, I anxiously observed the looming crisis that would devastate the nursing profession as 500,000 nurses were set to retire, but had no idea that a pandemic would drive hundreds more from their jobs, essentially crippling patient care. A business that requires mandatory overtime and unsafe conditions is not socially responsible or sustainable. Change will only take place if nurses stand up and demand the pay they’re worth. My mission is to empower nurses to think and to act like the entrepreneurs who are coached to change the face of healthcare.”
Jayne, a bestselling author who published with The Author Incubator, helps burnt out nurses working in toxic jobs design a more sustainable career path so they’ll remain healthy members of the profession.
She is building traction in her movement to have one nurse leader from every state joining the Nightingale Nursing Guild. Do you know a nurse that might want to join?
Jayne Van Brunt has a degree in nursing from Seattle University. Her nursing background includes 15 years in Oncology with a specialty in bone marrow and stem cell transplant and 20 years in the profession holding executive sales leadership positions in large healthcare corporations. Jayne is the published author of two books, The Nightingale Gene: Lessons to Living a Balanced Life & Having the Career of Your Dreams! and Shut Your Mouth. Jayne is the founder of the healthcare consulting company, Spin Savor Soar.
”I found my voice. I learned I was raised to be a good girl and to be pleasing but there was a rebel brewing. I remember from a young age finding inequality and injustice worthy of opening my mouth even at the risk of being told to shut it. Studying business with the Socially Responsible Coaching Alliance taught me to identify the priorities in my business and take action.”
She continues, “We (members) are all in the same place and struggling with the same things but at different paces. I love the display of vulnerability and courage I observe from members who want to make a difference. There is a spiritual force that is greater than this community guiding us to be who we are all meant to be. I am from a small town in Washington state that borders the Twelve Tribes Indian Nation. Growing up, I was the only girl on an all star boys baseball team.”We see why, Jayne - YOU ARE A TRUE BALLER!
An artisan at heart, Jayne continues to design jewelry in honor of lifetime friends and colleagues. Her word of the year is AWE because being truly awe-inspired is a gift.
We are awe-inspired by Jayne and hope you are too. Please share this message so we can get it out to Nurses. We need nurses and more than ever, nurses need us!
MEMBER GIFT
DO YOU KNOW A NURSE? Jayne is making this free gift available. It includes an article and assessment about burnout and a copy of her book, The Nightingale Gene. https://www.burnout.spinsavorsoar.com
The term 'burnt out' has to go. We are abused, abandoned and irrelevant and it's legal. Burn out was never an option when truth, health and mental well being are the priorities in good self-care.
Thanks for your endeavours and shared works. The book sounds interesting. I'll source it out.
Looking for a Canadian support like this. Any ideas???
Thank you Jayne for your service to the Nursing profession and being a voice for nursing heroes everywhere! I am sharing this article with a sister-friend who is a nurse. Thank you again!