Posts Tagged ‘
Nursing Shortage ’
Nov 6th, 2009 |
By Jeff |
Category: Featured, Hospital Staffing, Nurse Burnout, 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.
Tags: job satisfaction, leadership decisions, nurse managers, Nursing Shortage, Patient Care, robert wood johnson foundation, staff nurses
Posted in Featured, Hospital Staffing, Nurse Burnout, Patient Experience |
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Oct 16th, 2009 |
By Jeff |
Category: Demystifying healthcare staffing, Featured, Hospital Management, Hospital Staffing
Over the next severalweeks we are going to be bringing you a new series that tackles some of the common questions about temporary healthcare staffing.
Tags: ambulatory surgery centers, healthcare professional, healthcare professionals, Healthcare Staffing, home health, Hospital Staffing, Hospitals, liability insurance, Nurse Staffing, Nursing Shortage, recruit, staffing companies, staffing company, temporary staff, temporary staffing, travel healthcare, Travel Nurses, vendor management
Posted in Demystifying healthcare staffing, Featured, Hospital Management, Hospital Staffing |
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Sep 25th, 2009 |
By Jeff |
Category: Featured, Hospital Staffing, 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.
In [...]
Tags: Hospital Staffing, nurse robot, Nurse Staffing, nurse staffing with robots, nurses, Nursing Shortage, Patient Care, robot, robots
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Sep 4th, 2009 |
By Jeff |
Category: Featured, Hospital Staffing
I can’t believe fall is almost here and the school year has started. As you know that means that flu season is upon us. And this year we also have the threat of H1N1 looming.
I’ve recently seen some pretty scary numbers regarding how many people will be affected, and although I am sure it won’t [...]
Tags: california nurses association, cdc, cdc website, centers for medicare and medicaid, centers for medicare and medicaid services, flu season, Hospital Staffing, influenza, influenza activity, intensive care units, medicare, Nurse Staffing, Nursing Shortage, outbreak
Posted in Featured, Hospital Staffing |
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Aug 24th, 2009 |
By Jeff |
Category: Featured, Hospital Staffing
I just wanted to quickly point you to a good post at The Leaders’ Lounge about strategies to help your maximize your staff during this tough economy. But really this is good advice all the time.
The author Bonnie Clair, MSN, RN lays out some simple steps like how to assess your talent, improve employee engagement, listen [...]
Tags: economy, employee engagement, Hospital Staffing, nurse manager, nurse managers, Nurse Staff, Nurse Staffing, nursing management, Nursing Shortage, rn, staff burnout
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Oct 7th, 2008 |
By Jeff |
Category: Nursing Shortage
Among the many attempts at easing the nursing shortage, there is one that is having a very positive affect. Hospitals all across the country are introducing a mentor program which is aimed at retaining the current or seasoned nurses while easing new hires into the workforce.
The mentor is paired with a new nurse or new [...]
Tags: Healthcare Staffing, Hospital Staffing, Mentor Programs, Nursing, Nursing Shortage
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Oct 7th, 2008 |
By Patrick Fuerstenau |
Category: Nursing Shortage
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 [...]
Tags: Hospital Staffing, Medical Solutions, Nursing, Nursing Shortage
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Oct 7th, 2008 |
By Patrick Fuerstenau |
Category: Hospital Staffing, Nursing Shortage
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 [...]
Tags: Hospital Staffing, Nurse Staff, Nursing Shortage, Staffing Needs
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Oct 7th, 2008 |
By Patrick Fuerstenau |
Category: Hospital Staffing, Nursing Shortage
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 [...]
Tags: Healthcare facilities, Hospital Staffing, low staffing levels, nurses, Nursing Shortage, workplace violence
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Sep 19th, 2008 |
By Patrick Fuerstenau |
Category: Nursing Shortage, Travel Nurses
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 [...]
Tags: Hospital Staffing, Medical Solutions, Nursing jobs, Nursing Shortage
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