Boost Nurse Morale During Recession
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSPMany hospitals have dealt with cutbacks from lower patient traffic during the recession. The census is often lower so they had to flex people off. This does affect nurse morale.
Scheduling changes, such as moving from eight-hour shifts to 12-hour shifts, meant that scheduling could be juggled to allow cutbacks without affecting nurses so dramatically.
Still, as [...]
Employees Referrals Help Recruit Nurses
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSPSouthern 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
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSPNew 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!
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSPI’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
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSPDespite 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 [...]