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What do you think of prescribed color-coded scrubs?

1May12 • Jeannie1 comment

A Minneapolis-based hospital group will soon implement color-coded uniform requirements so that patients and family members can easily identify nurses from other hospital workers. This requirement has been causing some controversy among nurses nationally. Many argue that their brightly colored scrubs cheer up patients; the solid colored scrubs lack individuality and are depressing. What do [...]

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Drive New Patients to Your Hospital with Social Media

Drive New Patients to Your Hospital with Social Media

30Mar12 • Jeannie2 comments

Approximately 3,087 social networking accounts are currently ran by hospitals. But why would health care facilities be interested in Facebook or Twitter? Hospitals have found that social media helps them learn what patients, physicians and businesses are saying about their facility. This, in turn, helps them better policies and processes. The most advantageous social media benefit [...]

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Hospitals Exploring New Well-Being Programs

9Mar12 • Jeannie0 comments

Most hospitals currently implement well-being programs for their staff. Recently, more and more have been expanded beyond the traditional health and wellness offerings and are now addressing mental and emotional health, financial health, work-life effectiveness and workplace environment and stress. With this new integration, many already see measureable and positive results which have impacted employee [...]

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Medical Solutions Student Guide to Travel Nursing

Student’s Answer to Becoming a Travel Nurse

16Feb12 • Jeannie0 comments

For all those aspiring travel nurses out there! We’ve designed a new easy-to-follow Student Guide to Travel Nursing for those students wanting to chose travel nursing as career. The student guide details information on the required education, experience and necessary skills to become a successful travel nurse. Please pass this on to any students interested [...]

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How Do You Create an Effective Hospital Culture?

How Do You Create an Effective Hospital Culture?

10Feb12 • Jeannie0 comments

It’s proven that hospitals with an effective culture provide better patient care and outperform competitors.  To achieve a desired hospital culture, you must identify what kind of culture you currently have, decide what you want your culture to be, and shift everyone toward the preferred culture. The easiest way to assess current culture is to [...]

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LinkedIn, are you using it to recruit?

3Feb12 • Jeannie0 comments

LinkedIn has become the #1 social media network among recruiters, with over 120 million members. With it’s easy search of keywords, skills, specialties and recommendations, it alleviates a lot of the previous steps to finding the right candidate. Are your recruiters using it to search for potential healthcare staff?

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What is your hospital doing to keep nurses happy?

20Jan12 • Jeannie0 comments

With the current nurse shortage, it’s no surprise that hospitals should be doing all they can to keep their nurses happy. Maintaining an environment where the nurse wants to work is critical for not only nurse retention, but also patient quality. The overall stress accompanied by an uncomfortable and disrespectful work environment can send nurses [...]

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What do you do to combat physical nurse fatigue?

20Dec11 • Jeff0 comments

A recent survey by the American Nurses Association looked at the physical toll that being a nurse can impose on a person. Some of the more alarming things it found were that 80% of nurses say therey continue to work frequently even though they had neck, back or shoulder pain caused on the job and [...]

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Our top 10 most popular healthcare staffing posts

Our top 10 most popular healthcare staffing posts

2Dec11 • Jeff0 comments

It’s years end coming up soon, so it seems like a good time to look at the most popular posts have been over the past year. 10. How are you dealing with a more diverse nurse population? This article looked at the results of a nurse population study that had interesting results in relation to [...]

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What hospital executives think of temporary nurse staffing

What hospital executives think of temporary nurse staffing

30Sep11 • Jeff0 comments

In a round up of a panel at this year’s recent Healthcare Staffing Summit three healthcare executives’ opinions on the use of temporary nurse staffing were discussed. Two of the three do use travel nurses and other temporary staffing while the third didn’t, but their concerns were interesting to hear. From reading what they had to say it [...]

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