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January 08
The Business of Caring
Healthcare Financial Management Association
How nurses paired with finance for positive results. The Relationship between nurses and finance is typically strained at best. Nurse leaders and finance executives often see each other as having opposing motives. ...
Healthcare Financial Management Association
How nurses paired with finance for positive results. The Relationship between nurses and finance is typically strained at best. Nurse leaders and finance executives often see each other as having opposing motives. ...
November 07
Hospitals adopting technology allowing bidding for open shifts
AORN Management Connections
Today's perioperative managers face a full plate of operational objectives, with targets for improving quality of patient care and patient and workplace safety, cutting costs and boosting employee satisfaction - the main driver in recruiting and retaining qualified team members. ...
AORN Management Connections
Today's perioperative managers face a full plate of operational objectives, with targets for improving quality of patient care and patient and workplace safety, cutting costs and boosting employee satisfaction - the main driver in recruiting and retaining qualified team members. ...
September, 2007
Automated workforce tracking keeps you flexible
Nurse Management
Christus Spohn Health System, Corpus Christi, Tex., opted for an open shifts management program to give nurses more scheduling latitude and to better leverage its existing resource pool. ...
Nurse Management
Christus Spohn Health System, Corpus Christi, Tex., opted for an open shifts management program to give nurses more scheduling latitude and to better leverage its existing resource pool. ...
July/August, 2007
BidShift Helps Keep ETMC Staffed
Texas Hospitals
Remaining fully staffed is an ongoing challenge for East Texas Medical Center-Tyler, a Level I trauma center licensed for 450 beds, with 19 unique specialty units, including five ICUs. “We continually had staffing holes and open shifts in units,” says Cherie M. Murphy, RN, FACHE, vice president of patient services ...
Texas Hospitals
Remaining fully staffed is an ongoing challenge for East Texas Medical Center-Tyler, a Level I trauma center licensed for 450 beds, with 19 unique specialty units, including five ICUs. “We continually had staffing holes and open shifts in units,” says Cherie M. Murphy, RN, FACHE, vice president of patient services ...
July, 2007
Flexible Workforce Management Fills Staffing Gaps
Voice of Nursing Leadership
Although nurses have always had the option of working extra shifts, like hos- pitals everywhere, Carondelet Health in Kansas City frequently experienced staffing vacancies for critical shift needs. The organization’s manual processes for ensuring shift coverage were paper- based, inefficient, and time consuming. ...
Voice of Nursing Leadership
Although nurses have always had the option of working extra shifts, like hos- pitals everywhere, Carondelet Health in Kansas City frequently experienced staffing vacancies for critical shift needs. The organization’s manual processes for ensuring shift coverage were paper- based, inefficient, and time consuming. ...
June 14, 2007
Show Them Something Besides Money
HR Pulse
Imagine a hospital where nurses are enthusiastic about picking up an addtional shift or volunteering to work unpopular shifts. Shift vacancies would decline, the use of high-cost agency nurses would decrease, and care delivery at understaffed hospitals might actually improve. ...
HR Pulse
Imagine a hospital where nurses are enthusiastic about picking up an addtional shift or volunteering to work unpopular shifts. Shift vacancies would decline, the use of high-cost agency nurses would decrease, and care delivery at understaffed hospitals might actually improve. ...
April, 2007
Staffing through web-based open-shift bidding
American Nurse Today
For most healthcare facilities, meeting the staffing requirements necessary to deliver hight-quality patient care is an ongoing struggle. All nurse-managers have grappled with the challenge of filling vacant shifts. ...
American Nurse Today
For most healthcare facilities, meeting the staffing requirements necessary to deliver hight-quality patient care is an ongoing struggle. All nurse-managers have grappled with the challenge of filling vacant shifts. ...
October 1, 2006
Advance for Health Information Executives
Flexible Workforce Management
Rising labor costs are forcing re-examination of staffing practices that are no longer serving the best interests of health care organizations. For many, reliance on contract labor, overtime and bonuses has resulted in significant budget increases to accommodate the premium pay demanded by third parties, or to support employee incentives. ...
Flexible Workforce Management
Rising labor costs are forcing re-examination of staffing practices that are no longer serving the best interests of health care organizations. For many, reliance on contract labor, overtime and bonuses has resulted in significant budget increases to accommodate the premium pay demanded by third parties, or to support employee incentives. ...
October, 2006
Healthcare Informatics
Shifting the Burden
The national focus on the nursing shortage and the resulting competitive labor market for nurses and other clinical professionals is a major concern facing healthcare organizations across the United States. Hospitals are continually challenged by the daily reality of meeting staffing requirements necessary to deliver safe and quality patient care. ...
Shifting the Burden
The national focus on the nursing shortage and the resulting competitive labor market for nurses and other clinical professionals is a major concern facing healthcare organizations across the United States. Hospitals are continually challenged by the daily reality of meeting staffing requirements necessary to deliver safe and quality patient care. ...
September, 2006
The Business of Caring
How Is Your Hospital Coping with the Nursing Shortage?
See “Case Study 4: Shift Bidding Cuts Agency Costs at The Christ Hospital” (pages 3-4). The sigh of relief is almost audible: The nursing shortage seems to be waning ... at least for now, according to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (Health Affairs, June 26, 2006). RN employment is up. So are nursing school enrollments. But many experts say this is just the calm before a much larger storm. Nurse executives and managers need all the good ideas they can get on how to meet the nursing shortage—immediately and in the future. ...
How Is Your Hospital Coping with the Nursing Shortage?
See “Case Study 4: Shift Bidding Cuts Agency Costs at The Christ Hospital” (pages 3-4). The sigh of relief is almost audible: The nursing shortage seems to be waning ... at least for now, according to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (Health Affairs, June 26, 2006). RN employment is up. So are nursing school enrollments. But many experts say this is just the calm before a much larger storm. Nurse executives and managers need all the good ideas they can get on how to meet the nursing shortage—immediately and in the future. ...
August 18, 2006
Philadelphia Business Journal
Nurse vacancy rates dive at Main Line
Main Line Health's aggressive program to recruit and retain nurses launched five years ago is paying dividends. During the past two years, the system's three community hospitals -- Bryn Mawr, Paoli and Lankenau -- have hired 225 new graduate nurses and recruited an additional 100 experienced nurses. The new hires have helped lower the overall vacancy rates at the three hospitals, which now stands at 5.5 percent. ...
Nurse vacancy rates dive at Main Line
Main Line Health's aggressive program to recruit and retain nurses launched five years ago is paying dividends. During the past two years, the system's three community hospitals -- Bryn Mawr, Paoli and Lankenau -- have hired 225 new graduate nurses and recruited an additional 100 experienced nurses. The new hires have helped lower the overall vacancy rates at the three hospitals, which now stands at 5.5 percent. ...
Summer, 2006
HR Pulse, Summer 2006
Flexible Workforce Management: Reaping the Benefits at North Central Baptist Hospital
The nationwide nursing shortage and increasingly competitive labor market are making it harder and harder for hospitals to attract and retain qualified staff. Experts predict that nursing staff shortages will continue to outpace demand despite the nearly eight percent increase in total nurses reported in the most recent Health and Human Services government survey, with Texas and other states reporting staffing levels more than 20 percent below the national average.
Flexible Workforce Management: Reaping the Benefits at North Central Baptist Hospital
The nationwide nursing shortage and increasingly competitive labor market are making it harder and harder for hospitals to attract and retain qualified staff. Experts predict that nursing staff shortages will continue to outpace demand despite the nearly eight percent increase in total nurses reported in the most recent Health and Human Services government survey, with Texas and other states reporting staffing levels more than 20 percent below the national average.
June 21, 2006
Los Angeles Times
Hospital Clients Nurture Firm's Scheduling Software
Confronted with spending millions of dollars persuading nurses to work overtime, an Indianapolis hospital administrator had a novel thought: Could a computer program let nurses "bid" on which shifts they wanted and how much they should get paid? It would be like EBay in reverse - the nurse who bid the lowest salary would get the shift, and those who wanted to earn more could try for unpopular hours.
Hospital Clients Nurture Firm's Scheduling Software
Confronted with spending millions of dollars persuading nurses to work overtime, an Indianapolis hospital administrator had a novel thought: Could a computer program let nurses "bid" on which shifts they wanted and how much they should get paid? It would be like EBay in reverse - the nurse who bid the lowest salary would get the shift, and those who wanted to earn more could try for unpopular hours.
May 22, 2006
ADVANCE for Nurses
Flexible Workforce Management: A Successful Strategy for Achieving Effective Staffing
The nursing shortage and the resulting competitive labor market for nurses and other clinical professionals is a major concern facing healthcare organizations across the U.S. Many hospitals are compensating for staffing shortages by relying on short-term alternatives such as overtime and bonuses ...
Flexible Workforce Management: A Successful Strategy for Achieving Effective Staffing
The nursing shortage and the resulting competitive labor market for nurses and other clinical professionals is a major concern facing healthcare organizations across the U.S. Many hospitals are compensating for staffing shortages by relying on short-term alternatives such as overtime and bonuses ...
April, 2006
HealthCare Financial Management
Easing the bottom-line impact of staffing shortages
The healthcare workforce shortage is putting increased financial pressure on organizations already struggling with razor-thin margins, as costs continue to skyrocket for traditional options for filling open shifts: overtime, float pools, a variety of incentives, and the use of contract travelers and agency personnel. ...
Easing the bottom-line impact of staffing shortages
The healthcare workforce shortage is putting increased financial pressure on organizations already struggling with razor-thin margins, as costs continue to skyrocket for traditional options for filling open shifts: overtime, float pools, a variety of incentives, and the use of contract travelers and agency personnel. ...
March 28, 2006
HealthCare Review
Shift Bidding Technology: A Strategic Tool For Open Shift Management
It’s widely recognized that health care providers are facing a staffing shortage, particularly in nursing. As hospitals scramble to fill shift vacancies, many intensify recruitment efforts, increase salaries, offer overtime, or use costly temporary agency to fill the gaps ...
Shift Bidding Technology: A Strategic Tool For Open Shift Management
It’s widely recognized that health care providers are facing a staffing shortage, particularly in nursing. As hospitals scramble to fill shift vacancies, many intensify recruitment efforts, increase salaries, offer overtime, or use costly temporary agency to fill the gaps ...
February 2006
Health Management Technology
Going Once, Going Twice...
Healthcare organizations need to retain qualified staff and effectively use existing resources. When faced with the ongoing challenge to fill open shifts, we decided to make the best use of our own workforce by implementing an online shift bidding and staffing system. ...
Going Once, Going Twice...
Healthcare organizations need to retain qualified staff and effectively use existing resources. When faced with the ongoing challenge to fill open shifts, we decided to make the best use of our own workforce by implementing an online shift bidding and staffing system. ...
February 2006
Nurse Leader
Shift Bidding Technology: A Substantial Return On Investment
Christus nursing management knew that nurse participation in staff scheduling would likely increase satisfaction and employee productivity by allowing nurses to have access to the availability of open shifts. ...
Shift Bidding Technology: A Substantial Return On Investment
Christus nursing management knew that nurse participation in staff scheduling would likely increase satisfaction and employee productivity by allowing nurses to have access to the availability of open shifts. ...
January 5, 2006
Health Data Management
I.T. Makes Bid to Curb Nursing Costs
Web-based software is enabling providers to 'auction off' work shifts. ... Rio Grande Regional Hospital … has had problems filling nursing shifts with qualified staff. Again, like many other hospitals, it used contract nurses to fill the gaps in its nursing schedule. ...
I.T. Makes Bid to Curb Nursing Costs
Web-based software is enabling providers to 'auction off' work shifts. ... Rio Grande Regional Hospital … has had problems filling nursing shifts with qualified staff. Again, like many other hospitals, it used contract nurses to fill the gaps in its nursing schedule. ...