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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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A good nurse job description is the main ingredient in finding the perfect match

A good nurse job description is the main ingredient in finding the perfect match

13Sep11 • Jeff1 comment

If you are using a Vendor Management System (VMS) to manage your nurse staffing needs don’t forget one of the main ingredients in hiring qualified nurses, finding the perfect (or as close as you can get) match. When working with a VMS this can be difficult because you are most likely dealing with the need to [...]

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Easy ways for nurses to de-stress and avoid burnout

Easy ways for nurses to de-stress and avoid burnout

26Aug11 • Jeff0 comments

It’s no secret or any great big surprise that nurses deal with a lot of stress on the job. And like in any job, a stressed worker is not a good worker. When the care of patients is involved it is even more critical for nurses and their managers to find ways to relieve that [...]

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7 must have traits for travel nurses at your hospital

7 must have traits for travel nurses at your hospital

12Aug11 • Jeff0 comments

When using temporary nursing agencies as part of your hospital’s staffing strategy it is important to know what you are looking for in a travel nurse. This may seem obvious, but the traits you are going to look for in a travel nurse are not necessarily going to be the same ones you look for [...]

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Make your travel nurses feel welcome

Make your travel nurses feel welcome

22Jul11 • Jeff0 comments

Recent news and research has shown that travel nursing is steadily returning to pre-recession levels, which means more and more your hospital will be able to be less choosy and in a more competitive mode to get the best travel nurses. This makes it important for you to make a good impression on them as [...]

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