If you lose positions, you have to fill them. The national turnover rates according to the National Association for Health Care Recruitment are 18.1 percent overall and 15.2 percent for RNs. We calculate turnover rate by dividing the number of resignations by the total number of positions. You do that within a certain designated period of the year. The problem with turnover rate calculations is that they lack consistency.
Some people still do it by FTEs and some still do it by positions.
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