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Focus groups: a program planning technique.

M B DesRosier·K C Zellers
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To successfully develop nurse retention programs, a thorough organizational analysis, including the identification of problems, is necessary. Used as a management tool, focus groups that use the organization's nursing staff provide a unique method of data collection for identifying problems that now exist in the organization. The authors discuss this method for obtaining information for strategic planning for retention of nurses.

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M B DesRosier, K C Zellers. 1989. Focus groups: a program planning technique.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2646399/

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