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 [...]
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 [...]
121,000 New Job Ads Posted for Registered Nurses
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, December 13th, 2011121,000 new job ads for Registered Nurses were posted by employers and staffing agencies in May, up 46% from May last year, according to Wanted Analytics. About 10% were ads placed for positions at hospitals, where turnover rates for RNs average 14%. Last April the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that “the health care industry [...]
Healthcare Employment Growing!
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, October 7th, 2011Nursing has always been one of the most recession-proof professions and that has once again been proven. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care is one of the few industries that continued to show employment growth during the recession.
More than 170,900 jobs were created in health care in the first 7 months [...]
Keep Your Nurses Healthy…and Retain Them
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, June 23rd, 2011Visiting hospitals and doing recruitment and retention events has taught me a lot about how to retain staff. Those organizations that provide employee wellness programs have less turnover, healthier staff, and lower costs.
2009 Mercer study reports 34% of companies with 500 employees or more offer healthcare onsite or near their facility. As a result, workers [...]
