You are used to giving feedback to your full-time nurse staff, but how often are you giving your travel nurses or travel nursing companies feedback? If you already do, that is great, but if not, it may be something you should look at instituting at your hospital. There are benefits for all three if you do. Benefit [...]
This can be dependent on the company’s size and the number of candidates in their pool, but travel nursing companies normally should be able to provide you with nurse staff for almost all specialties and sub-specialties. Of course they will face similar challenges to you when it comes to harder to find specialists, but the thing [...]
Even though travel nurses are only at your hospital for 13 week assignments and a couple of possible extensions, it is still important to make sure they are a good fit for your unit and hospital’s culture. Having travel nurses who are agood fit culturally can help reduce situations where you are forced to fire [...]
This is something you do not have to worry about if you are considering using travelers at your hospital. Housing is something that the healthcare staffing company you are working with should definitely take care of. They usually have a housing department that handles finding their travel healthcare professionals suitable housing and furnishing it, which [...]
Ideally of course you would like to fill your open nursing position with a permanent nurse or have a staffing plan in place that lets you know in advance when you are going to need temporary staff to supplement your full time staff. However, if neither of those are the case, then yes most healthcare staffing [...]
There is a misconception out there at times that a nurse may be interested in travel assignments because she could not cut it in a permanent position. In reality, not only has research shown that temporary nurses are as qualified if not more so than permanent nurses, but there are also other reasons they may be interested in a temporary [...]
Dealing with nurse staff that is suffering from burnout is a constant challenge for nurse manager, so we have put together this list of nurse burnout resources for you to refer to when it becomes a challenge in your unit.
Of course no evaluation of healthcare staffing companies would be complete without a look at cost. However, we have saved cost for last because it is really a combination of the first two factors the quality of the candidate and the system of its delivery. Obviously cost is a complicated and may be more than [...]
If the quality of the candidates is the lifeblood of a healthcare staffing company then their process is the heart. It is in the process that a lot of differentiation in companies takes place. There are three key process styles that companies tend to fall into and they really set the tone for how they [...]
The quality and quantity of nursing and allied health candidates that a staffing company provide is really the core of their business and is one of the main reasons you should be considering working with a staffing company in the first place. There are four key components to this: Nursing and Allied Health Candidate Pool Size, Recruiting [...]
