Nurse Retention and Recruitment Blog: Rural Nurses in High Demand
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, February 1st, 2012The healthcare field is highly concerned with the looming nursing shortage, especially in rural areas. Many nursing professionals are getting older and retiring and there are not enough nurses to fill the open positions.
Marquette University’s College of Nursing chose three providers in the United States to help work on the three-year grant project known as [...]
Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention Blog: Healthcare Industry Growth on the Rise
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 25th, 2012Stable growth in the healthcare industry means good things in terms of nurse recruitment and nurse retention. The healthcare industry is one of the nation’s fastest-growing, surviving the economy’s drastic plunge in 2008 and prospering in the years since. Between 2007 and September 2011, while total U.S. non-farm employment plummeted 4.7%, employment in the healthcare [...]
Healthcare Jobs: Ambulatory Care Jobs Double
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 18th, 2012I’m always thrilled to hear of healthcare jobs on the rise – especially within the nursing profession. Driving growth in ambulatory services is a number of factors. Technological advances have enabled a greater number of health problems to be treated by outpatient doctors and nurse practitioners.
A boom in nursing care, as record numbers hit retirement [...]
Qualified Nursing School Applicants Turned Away
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 11th, 2012The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) reported an increase in nursing school enrollment throughout the past decade, yet qualified nursing school applicants continue to be turned away from colleges and universities.
AACN reports that in 2009, nursing schools rejected nearly 55,000 qualified applicants. Faculty shortages, budget constraints, and increasing job competition from clinical sites [...]
Healthcare is Back in Business!
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 4th, 2012Travel nurse agency, American Traveler, announced in October a year-over-year increase of 56 percent in nurse job employment, which included both staff RN positions and travel nurse jobs. The increase, said Clinical Resource Manager, Deborah Bacurin, RN, is due to larger healthcare employers rebounding from recession and hiring travel nurses again, along with a sprouting [...]
