Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention

Recession or Not..We Are Still 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 healthcare staffing company, 95 percent of hospital CEOs said [...]

Nurse Get More Time at the Bedside

A three-year effort to improve the work environment for New Jersey’s nurses is under way, with 47 state hospitals set to participate.
The hospitals are participating in the Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative, to train support nurses so they can spend more time with their patients.
The training also is intended to increase retention [...]

Care Lacking Due to Nurse Shortage

Shortages of healthcare professionals have compromised access to care in their areas, some CEOs report. Forty-six percent said access to care has been compromised by physician shortages, and eight percent said access has been compromised by nurse shortages. This may not seem like a big number, until one realizes that 8 out o f 100 [...]

Engage Nurses to Retain Nurses

I had the privilege of presenting 2 sessions at the Press Ganey National Client conference in Washington D.C. last week. I was thrilled that attendees benefited so from my Each One Reach One Nurse session ,where I shared over 150 tips on recruiting and retaining nurses, and they brainstormed even more!
As an expert in nurse [...]

Millions of Jobs in Healthcare!

While many jobs were lost last year, jobs in health care fields actually increased. Over the last eight years, of the 3 million new jobs in the private sector, 2.5 million of those were related to health care.
Experts agree this trend will continue. And the good news is, health care jobs can’t be outsourced like [...]