Table of Contents
 
General Instructions
Selecting Your Reporting semester
Contact Information
Organization Information
Turnover Report
Short Supply Positions - Turnover
Vacancy Report
Short Supply Positions - Vacancy
 
General Instructions for Filling Out the Survey
 
The Turnover and Vacancy Survey consists of 3 data entry pages and a summary page for your final review. Enter your data as accurately and completely as you can. Some of the fields and sections are required. If you fail to enter those fields they will be highlighted and you will be returned to the incompleted page. When you have completed a page, click on the 'Next' tab at the top or bottom of the page. Your data will be saved and the next entry page will appear. Upon completion of all the data entry pages a summary page will appear. In addition to all the data you have entered, turnover rates and vacancy rates are calculated and printed on this page. Check this data carefully and if a change is needed click the 'Back' text on the section heading line to return to that page to fix the data. When everything is ok click the 'Next' tab on the summary page and a thank you page will appear. A confirmation email will be sent to you and our administrator alerting us that you have completed a submission. If you have any questions please feel free to use the email link to our administrator at the bottom of every page in the 'Contact Us' section.
 
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Select Your Reporting Semester
 
Select the time period or semester that corresponds to the date of the data entered into this survey.
 
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Contact Information
 
Please enter the information of the individual who completes the survey or is responsible for most of the information entered into this survey. This person will be contacted if questions arise concerning submitted survey information.
 
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Organization Information
 
Please provide ESTIMATES to the percentage of services provided within the surveyed facility. The following three scenarios are examples of ways to describe a facility: 1) a facility that is comprised of a hospital only would be entered as: Hospital 100%; 2) a facility that is comprised of both long term care (nursing home) and hospital services equally would be entered as: Hospital 50%, Long Term Care (Nursing) Home 50%; 3) a facility that is comprised of hospital, long term care, and clinic services could be entered as: Hospital 40%, Long Term Care (Nursing) Home 40%, Clinic 20%. Again, the information is the facility's ESTIMATE of the offered services. This information will be used to develop an estimated picture of the service scope offered in hospital facilities.
 
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Turnover Report
 
The survey fields required for this area of the survey are: "Number of Positions (Start of Semester)," "Number of Positions (End of Semester)," and "Number of Positions that left during the semester." Employee figures are not asked on FTE level, rather the number of positions employed be it full or part time. The survey requests position numbers instead of employee numbers for instances in which organization employs many people who hold more than one position. If your organization does not employ a great number of people with more than one position you may choose to enter employee numbers instead. For purposes of this report, the start of the semester can mean the first day of the semester or the closest pay period date in the surveyed facility. The end of the semester can mean the last day of the semester or the pay period date closest to six months from the starting date. All other fields are optional, including the entire column of Turnover Cost, provided to capture a more comprehensive perspective of turnover within hospital facilities. "Leaving" an organization can occur from several reasons including termination (voluntary or nonvoluntary), retirement, or death. Also, an employee who switches facilities for a system should be counted as a termination for the left facility and a new hire for the new facility. The formula used to automatically calculate turnover is the average between the "Number of Positions" at the end and beginning of the measuring period divided into the "Number of Positions Vacated." For example, if the surveyed facility had 100 employees at the beginning of the semester and 98 employees at the end with 4 employees that left (hypothetically meaning two of the 4 vacancies had been filled), the formula would appear as (100+98/2) = 99; 4/99 = 4%.

Note: It may be a practice in some organizations to allow employees to transfer to an employment status that is a "very limited working status." This may be called "on call," "casual," etc... Due to the myriad of definitions of such employees we ask that these numbers be excluded from this survey. Additionally, for purposes of this survey if an employee chooses to become "casual" he/she should be considered terminated. Likewise is a casual employee that becomes full or part-time, that employee should be counted a new hire.

 
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Short Supply Positions - Turnover
 
These survey fields follow the same formula used above but for only the number of positions within your organization that fall within the following occupational descriptions. For example if your organization employs 50 CNAs, this area of the survey will calculate your total CNA turnover rate. If your organization does not employ a position listed simply enter zero.
 
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Vacancy Report
 
The survey fields required for this area of the survey are: "Number of Positions (End of semester)" and "Number of Vacant Positions (End of semester)." Employee figures are not asked on FTE level, rather the number of positions employed be it full or part time. The survey requests position numbers instead of employee numbers for instances in which organization employs many people who hold more than one position. If your organization does not employ a great number of people with more than one position you may choose to enter employee numbers instead. For purposes of this report, end of the semester can mean the last day of the semester or the pay period date closest to the last day of the semester. The formula used to automatically calculate vacancy percentages is the "Number of Vacant Positions" divided by the "Number of Employees." For example, at the end of the semester the surveyed facility has 100 employees with 2 vacant positions, the formula would appear as 2/100 = 2%.
 
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Short Supply Positions - Vacancy
 
These survey fields follow the same formula used above but for only the number of positions within your organization that fall within the following occupational descriptions. For example if your organization employs 50 CNAs, this area of the survey will calculate your total CNA vacancy rate. If your organization does not employ a position listed simply enter zero.
 
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