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Every tool a CNO needs to stop turnover before it starts

From BLS wage benchmarking to formula-based retention risk scores — purpose-built for the 50–300-bed nursing workforce.

See your turnover rate — and the NSI benchmark — in real time

The rolling 12-month voluntary turnover rate for every unit and role in your facility, calculated automatically from departure logs. The NSI national average (16.4%) appears as a reference line so you always know where you stand. A 100-nurse facility running at 18% is losing 18 nurses per year — $1.08M in attrition cost at the NSI-reported $60,090 per departure.

Benchmark → NSI 16.4% national average

Turn departures into a dollar figure your CFO can act on

Every departure you log feeds an auto-calculated annualized cost using a configurable cost-per-departure assumption (default: $60,090/RN, $45,000/LPN per NSI 2026). Year-to-date cost and the 12-month projected run rate sit on the main dashboard as the first number your CFO sees in the monthly PDF report.

Default → $60,090/RN departure (NSI 2026)

Know exactly where your RN pay sits in your regional market

State-level median and percentile wages for RN (SOC 29-1141) and LPN/LVN (SOC 29-2061) on the Essentials plan; metro-area (MSA/BOS) data from Professional tier up. Data sourced from the annual BLS OES release (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) — the same authoritative source hospital systems use. When your internal pay band midpoint is more than 10% below the BLS regional median, a wage-gap alert fires automatically. That alert goes in the monthly PDF.

Source → BLS OES Annual May Release (public domain)

A 0–100 retention risk score per unit — with no black box

Five equally weighted inputs (each 0–20 points): overtime hours vs. baseline, vacancy rate vs. FTE target, average days-open for open positions, departure rate trend (last 3 months vs. prior 3 months), and wage gap vs. BLS regional median. Units scoring above 70 are red (high risk); 40–70 amber; below 40 green. The formula is shown in a tooltip — no algorithm you can't explain to your board. Admin-configurable weights for facilities with different risk profiles.

Available → Professional, Business, Enterprise

See the FTE gap coming before it costs you $125/hour

A deterministic 6-month projection built from three observable inputs: your trailing 12-month departure rate extrapolated forward, retirement-age flags on current staff, and the current vacancy count as a floor. The forecast shows month-by-month projected FTE gaps and the cumulative estimated travel nurse premium cost if those vacancies aren't filled (configurable travel nurse hourly rate, default $125/hr × 40 hrs/week × projected open FTE-weeks). Formula documented in a help tooltip.

Available → Professional, Business, Enterprise

Full skills and task profiles for 80+ healthcare occupations

O*NET occupational profiles for RN, LPN/LVN, and 80+ healthcare roles in SOC groups 29 and 31 — including skills, tasks, knowledge, knowledge requirements, work activities, work context, and Job Zone. Joined to BLS OES wage data by SOC code so each occupation detail page shows both the skills profile and the regional wage benchmark in one view. Useful for reskilling pathway planning and internal transfer analysis.

Occupational data sourced from O*NET 30.3, licensed under CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

Record interventions. Track outcomes. Build institutional memory.

A structured log per unit for recording retention interventions — one-on-one conversations, schedule adjustments, pay equity reviews, mentoring programs. Each entry captures the intervention date, owner, description, and outcome status (Open / In Progress / Resolved). Available at Professional tier and above; custom threshold-based alerts at Business and above.

A board-ready report, auto-generated on the 1st of every month

One-page PDF covering: headcount vs. FTE target, vacancy count and average days-open, rolling 12-month turnover rate vs. NSI benchmark, YTD turnover cost, top 3 units by retention risk score, and BLS wage-gap alert summary. Auto-generated on a configurable day each month and downloadable on demand. Essentials tier carries a watermark; Professional and above generates a clean report with optional custom logo.

Before & after Nursing Workforce Planner

Before
Tracking departures in a shared Google Sheet that breaks above 30 FTEs
Rolling 12-month turnover rate by unit and role, auto-calculated
No idea whether RN pay is below the BLS regional median until exit interviews
Wage-gap alerts fire when internal pay band is >10% below BLS median
Discovering a retention problem after the second resignation in 60 days
Retention risk score flags high-risk units in red before departures cluster
Estimating future vacancies based on “who seems unhappy”
6-month vacancy forecast with deterministic FTE gap projection
CFO sees travel nurse invoices; no context for the root cause
Annualized turnover cost and travel nurse premium cost side by side on one dashboard
5–10 hours/month of manual spreadsheet entry per facility
Real-time analytics from logged data entries; monthly PDF auto-generated

In their words

Christine (CNO, 150-bed hospital)

Christine logs in on Monday and sees Med-Surg at 74/100 on the retention risk dashboard — red. The component breakdown shows: vacancy rate 18%, overtime at 140% of baseline, wage gap 10.2% below BLS metro median. She logs a new voluntary departure, creates a retention action entry, and uses the wage-gap alert to build a pay band adjustment proposal for HR — all before her 9am staff meeting.

Marcus (Director of Nursing, 80-bed SNF)

Marcus needs to justify a headcount addition to ownership. He pulls the 6-month vacancy forecast: 3.2 FTE gap projected for Q4, $156,000 in travel nurse premium if not addressed. He shows ownership the cost-of-inaction number. The conversation shifts from “can we afford to hire?” to “can we afford not to?”

CFO / Hospital Administrator

The CFO opens the dashboard for the first time: $240,360 in annualized turnover cost YTD (4 departures × $60,090). The travel nurse premium tracker shows $227,760/year for 4 open FTEs at $135/hr. Combined labor risk: $468,120. The Professional plan annual subscription: $3,490. The conversation becomes arithmetic.