What is it about?
Today's healthcare team is multigenerational. Never before has the nursing workforce included members from four different generations (Veteran, Baby Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial) each with distinct characteristics, attitudes, education, goals, and work engagement levels. Healthcare organizations need to understand how they can foster work engagement (vigor, dedication, and absorption) across multiple generations to maximize individual performance and clinical competency, while improving organizational and patient care outcomes.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
This results of this investigation found that Veteran-aged and Baby Boomer nursing cohorts were the most engaged. However, Veteran and Baby Boomer nurses will be retiring from nursing and Gen X and Millennial nurses will become the dominant workforces in healthcare. These findings indicate nursing leaders should take full advantage of the experience, the vigor, dedication, and absorption of the Veteran and Baby Boomer generation to mentor and transfer critical knowledge to the Gen X and Millennial nurses.
Perspectives
I hope this article supports a paradigm shift towards healthcare organizations willingness to measure work engagement levels of nurses verses employee work satisfaction levels. Engagement is all about valuing your employee no matter what generational cohort they identify with .
Dr. Mariann Hisel
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Measuring Work Engagement in a Multigenerational Nursing Workforce, Journal of Nursing Management, December 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12921.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
