I’m sure you are aware of the areas that using travel nurse staff can benefit your hospital from a financial aspect: Workers’ Compensation, Vacations and Sick Days, Accounting Costs and Wages, Training Time, Payroll Taxes, Pension Costs, Termination Expenses & Unemployment.
But are you aware of the hidden values of using travel nurses?
1. For starters [...]

There’s no surprise in the reality that the United States is in the middle of a nursing crisis. According to some statistics, currently there is an estimated shortage of 150,000 nurses in the U.S. alone. Over the next ten years or so, there will be a need for over 650,000 new nursing jobs, while at [...]

I just read an interesting article in Managed Executive Healthcare about ways to improve your methods for finding new healthcare talent. There were a lot of great take aways, including evaluating talent beyond technical skills, understanding the real reasons people are leaving your hospital and interviewing properly. You can read it here, but one area [...]

As you face the day to day challenges of staffing your hospital facility, one area you may not always consider is the way it is affecting the mindset of your current nursing staff. A recent study by the American Nurses Association looked at this issue specifically and came to some disturbing, but probably not too [...]

Short but sweet post. Here’s an article I discovered in my local newspaper here in Omaha, Nebraska.
It’s nice to know that hospitals are constantly trying to keep up with patient comments and requests relating to their past experiences. This gives the facilities a better idea of what is expected of them from a patient [...]

According to a recent story in the New York Times, low staffing levels in facilities combined with the nationwide nursing shortage increase the risk of an assault. The article also notes that nurses and other personal care workers suffer injuries from these attacks at a rate 12 times higher than the overall private sector.
Nurses and [...]

As of January 1, 2008 California has implemented it’s historic safe hospital staffing law which states that every hospital must abide by certain ratios for every department within the care facility. These ratios have transformed hospital care and helped increase patient safety by ordering them to maintain minimum, specific nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for all hospital [...]