How Can Healthcare in Rural Communities Survive?
Competition to recruit registered nurses is fierce, especially experienced nurses. For rural healthcare facilities, competing for nurses is even more compressed due to the experience, ...
The Place for Personality
Locum tenens recruiters have long understood that who you are influences the contract assignments you should take.
When the pandemic forced us to transition to a remote work world, ...
We Won’t Go Back: Dismantle Barriers to Healthcare Practice
The pandemic has sent a clear message that artificial barriers to mobility and professional practice by nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are dangerous to our nation’s ...
Vaccine Planning? Include Your Contracted Providers
Recently, our hospitals have started administering Covid-19 vaccination to our healthcare workers. This should come as fantastic news, as it would seem that a very valuable protection ...
How North Dakota Failed Its Nurses & What We Can Learn From It
Recently, the governor of North Dakota made an extraordinary announcement that sent shockwaves through the nursing community: hospitals in that state would allow nurses who had tested ...
The Year of the Patient: ‘Patient experience’ the competitive differentiator in 2021
From telemedicine to a blended care model, experts have predicted that 2021 is poised to be the year of the patient. While providing the best service possible has long been the mantra ...
The Impending Skills Gap in Healthcare
Normally, healthcare workers — nurses, therapists, etc. — will complete classroom as well as in-person practical clinical training as part of the education required to practice ...
Telehealth – It’s About People Plus Innovation, Not Just Technology
Telehealth is one of the fastest-growing healthcare industries – and for very good reason. During the pandemic, the benefits of bringing the healing arts to any patient anywhere via ...
Election Results: What’s at Stake for the US Staffing Industry
As we hear that Americans are casting their votes for our next president in record numbers by mail or in person early, as a businessman and entrepreneur, I think about how the outcome ...
If Left Untreated: The Fallout of Nurse Fatigue and Burnout
It seems like only yesterday we were raising the flag on the importance of our nurses and their impact on quality outcomes and patient care always, but particularly in the midst of ...