Hospital Staff Retention

I have seen a lot of readers coming to The Healthcare Staffing Blog looking for advice on nurse retention lately. So I wanted to point out a great site that is completely devoted to this topic. NurseRecruitmentandRetention.com is the website of LeAnn Thieman a well known expert on the subject of nurse retention and recruiting. I [...]

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Demystifying healthcare staffing

When it comes to staffing your hospital it important that you have a plan in place. You want to make sure that you have enough nurses in place to deal with things like seasonal fluctuations, the opening of new units or wings, unexpected and expected staff vacancies and illnesses just to name a few. That part [...]

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Nursing Shortage

When I was a kid I was promised by the media and entertainment industries two things, we would all wear the same clothes with metallic rings around the shoulders and we all would have robots helping us by the year 2000. I am still waiting on the uniform, but the robot thing may be getting closer.
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Nurse Burnout

I just read an article about an initiative in New Jersey led by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Institute for Quality and Patient Safety, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at educating and supporting nurses so they can increase the amount of time they spend at with patients and in the process improving their job satisfaction. In turn this should help address the nursing shortage by stopping or at least slowing down the leaving of nurses from the profession.

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Travel Nurses

Travel nurses are great at stepping in right away and helping out. But any little thing you as a nurse manager can do to help speed up that process will help her acclimate faster and in the end help your unit perform better.
Integrating a travel nurse into your unit is really just a matter of [...]

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Healthcare Staffing Tweets

A great nursing unit can depend on getting four different generations to work well together. Here are some tips to help. http://ow.ly/12wL5 #

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Nursing Staff Management

Travel nurses are great at stepping in right away and helping out. But any little thing you as a nurse manager can do to help speed up that process will help her acclimate faster and in the end help your unit perform better.
Integrating a travel nurse into your unit is really just a matter of [...]

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Medical Solutions Staffing News

In this economy and considering the current state of the nursing and healthcare staffing industry, nurses and therapists don’t need “recruiters” who are not interested in the long term benefit they can bring to a travelers career. They need a partner who can understand their career goals and help them achieve them. At Medical Solutions [...]

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Healthcare Staffing Innovation

Over at HospitalImpact.org was a great post about emotionally intelligent patient care using DISC personality profiles (Dominant, Influential, Steady, Conscientious). The thought of personality types in a hospital unit is intriguing for a couple of reasons.
The first being the impact on patient care on an individual basis and being able to recognize what your patients [...]

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Patient Experience

I just read an article about an initiative in New Jersey led by the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Institute for Quality and Patient Safety, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at educating and supporting nurses so they can increase the amount of time they spend at with patients and in the process improving their job satisfaction. In turn this should help address the nursing shortage by stopping or at least slowing down the leaving of nurses from the profession.

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