Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention

Employees Referrals Help Recruit Nurses

Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, GA has a great nurse recruitment and retention strategy. They have a low vacancy rate for nurses . In today’s job market, nurses are more grateful to have jobs and less likely to switch employers, they note. There is also an abundance of new grads in that area.

One of [...]

Stimulus Funds To Train Medical Workers

New funding has been proposed in order to decrease the effect of health care worker and nursing shortages. The United States Labor Secretary, Hilda Stolis, has declared the government’s plans to release 220 million dollars of federal stimulus funds to training programs for workers in the medical profession.

The Labor Secretary revealed plans to stimulate the [...]

School Nurses Need Help!

I’m thrilled to be the opening Keynote speaker for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) on June 29th.

NASN
is the leader in advocacy for student health and professional
development of school nurses.  Every child deserves a school nurse. Yet the caseload assignments for school nurses vary greatly throughout
the United States. Historically, the federal government and the
National [...]

Recession or Not..We Are Short of Nurses

Despite the recession, most hospital executives believe there are still too few physicians and nurses in the United States, and the shortages will grow worse if access to healthcare becomes universal.

In a survey of 285 hospital chief executive officers conducted by AMN Healthcare, the nation’s largest health care staffing company, 95 percent of hospital CEOs [...]

You Must See this Pink Glove Dance!

A friend sent a link for me to watch the Pink Glove Dance. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland choreographed a dance performed by employees, as a breast cancer awareness event.I was so enthralled with the involvement of every department…talk about employee engagement! When I called the CNO, Martie Moore to compliment her, she [...]