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"Reward and recognition programs, whether formal or informal, economic or personal create motivation and job satisfaction. External rewards may draw a person to a job, but internal rewards are what keep them there" (McCoy, 1999).

The Florida Center for Nursing is in the process of identifying best practice and innovative strategy initiatives for recruitment and retention of nurses. The intent is to have a web-based resource designed to facilitate the dissemination of best practice information across the state of Florida.

Best Practice & Innovative Strategy Defined
Best Practice and Innovative Strategy are not new concepts to healthcare. Healthcare organizations worldwide are engaged in best practice activities on a daily basis, which are resulting in dramatic improvements in the area of recruitment and retention of nurses.

What constitutes a best practice and/or innovative strategy has been the focus of numerous discussions in the literature. In the context of this initiative, best practice and/or innovative strategy is defined as strategies, activities, or approaches which have been shown to be effective.

About the FCN Best Practice & Innovative Strategy Database
The FCN Best Practice & Innovative Strategy Database is of interest to nurse clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, leaders, recruiters, student nurses and all those wanting to learn about and share best practices and concepts from around the state of Florida and nation when applicable. This includes all healthcare settings, employers, governments and the public.

The FCN Best Practice & Innovative Strategy Database for Recruitment and Retention is a long term initiative and has been created to:

• foster innovation among all healthcare professionals,
• promote the dissemination of best practices and/or innovative strategies,
• recognize the contribution employers make to achieving the goals of recruitment and
• provide a searchable inventory of recruitment and retention best practice and innovative strategy initiatives, and
• Provide a forum for knowledge sharing.

All individuals or organizations are encouraged to submit initiatives (2000 to present) for entry into the database. The best practice and/or innovative strategy may be submitted by an individual, group or organization. We encourage contributions of all recruitment and retention best practice and innovative strategies whether they are simple or complex, proposed or already implemented. In order to be included in the database, a best practice and/or innovative strategy initiative submission must meet the following criteria:

• the initiative has resulted in improvements in recruitment and or retention
• the initiative has the potential to result in improvement in recruitment and or retention
• the initiative has had significant involvement and leadership of nurses from inception to development and implementation

To submit a best practice and/or innovative strategy initiative please complete the:
Best Practice/Innovative Strategy Submission Form. For additional information contact us at: NurseCtr@mail.ucf.edu, or call (407) 823-0983.

Best Practice Initiatives

Title:	Changing the image of nursing
Date:	12/01/2004
Author:	James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
In an effort to improve the VA image and to be more appealing in today's competitive nursing market, innovative recruitment strategies were explored and implemented - Read Report

Title:	Innovation in Nursing Recruitment: Acute Care Internship Program Changing the image of nursing
Date:	12/01/2004
Author:	James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
The goal of this program is offer clinical experiences that provide new graduate nurses opportunities to gain new skills, improve confidence and increase overall competency levels at the bedside - Read Report

Innovative Strategy Initiatives

Title:	Make the Career Move of a Lifetime
Date:	02/01/2005
Author:	South Florida Hosptial & Healthcare Association's Nursing Shortage Task Force
We have produced brochures and video, showing the beauty of the area, the wealth of jobs, schools and communities in which to live. We have nurses from our area describing their broad choice of nursing jobs and facilities in which they work - Read Report

References
McCoy J.M.(1999). Recognize, reward, retain: Start a program to raise morale and retain staff.
Nursing Management, 30(2), 41-43.

Internet Resources Pertaining to Nurse Retention and Recruitment