Topics About 'Staffing'.

In a significant move towards ensuring high-quality patient care, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania has introduced House Bill No. 106, which focuses on implementing Hospital Patient Protection Provisions. The bill aims to amend the existing H...

While attention has been focused on problems associated with the national nursing shortages, little has been said about the impact that the Medical Staffing Industry has had on the safe delivery of health care across the nation. This is an Industry t...

It seems talks about staffing ratios are taking the nation by storm. One group of nurses at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is taking matters into their own hands. BeaumontNurses.org is a 100 nurse-strong group which has launched a drive to ...

As nurses, staffing seems to be a widespread problem, but it's one that we shouldn't have to accept. Lately, I've been trying to come up with ideas to help better staff my own unit. Today, I explicitly told the DON and schedular that with the...

History of the shortage In March 2000, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses conducted by the Division of Nursing of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Professionals revealed several interesting facts abou...

Everyone Deserves the Best Care PossibleNurses are often put in impossible situations pushed to care for more patients than is safe. It is fair to say everyone deserves the best care possible. In order to ensure this, safe staffing for nurses and pat...

Illinois Nurse Staffing SurveyCatherine Stokes BSN, RN, Jalil Johnson PhD, APRN, Ruth Neese PhD, RN, CEN, Doris Carroll BSN, RN-BC, CCRC, Pamela S. Robbins MSN, RN, Deena Sowa McCollum BSN, RN A national survey was completed from October 1, 2018- Oct...

I'm interested in hearing what other acute care hospitals do when they have have holes in staffing, such as same day call ins, or shortages of staff that don't allow for proper scheduling? Where do you get staff from? What does California do wh...

I guess my hospital finally reached a breaking point and was forced to pony up some cash. We have a small ICU with 12 beds, when I left this morning we had 29 critical care patients in the hospital. We have vented patients in PCU, PACU, the ED, etc. ...

Health systems have to be forward thinking and use creative strategies to recruit good nurses. According to an NSI Nursing Solutions’ 2016 National Healthcare and Retention RN Staffing Report, it costs a conservative estimate of $54,400 to replace e...

Nursing shortages have long troubled the nursing and healthcare industry. The aging US population means more people with comorbidities and requires more acute and chronic care management than ever before. Due to the ever-aging population, nursing pro...

I work in an LTC. Recently they have been doing these contests/games on the unit. I do not participate. I want to get my job done especially when its busy. They were doing all of that ... telling the staff about picking a number and joining the...

Nurses are leaving their current workplace to find employment elsewhere, even considering other occupations. Here are five ways to promote staff retention and overall satisfaction. 1- Ask frontline staff for advice before making decisions1 ...

What is the staffing like on your covid unit? What level of care med/surg , step down , tele ? Has the staffing varied? Are you in a surge? Do you have ancillary help such as CNAs , phlebotomists, housekeeper, ward clerks? Do you chan...

Nurses across the state of Illinois are demanding change. While Illinois House Bill 2064 aims to deliver nurse staffing ratios, nurses speak out to raise awareness of a variety of patient and staff safety concerns. Channel 5 Chicago aired an intervie...

A Chattanooga, Tennessee newspaper recently published an editorial analyzing the root cause of the area’s nursing shortage. Roy Exum, a local controversial opinion columnist, offered an alternative explanation that contrasted the underlying problems ...

The cost of nursing staff turnover is immense for hospitals according to the 2019 National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report (NSI, 2019). The NSI reports that on average to replace a bedside nursing job it can cost up to $52,100. Last ye...

I know this is a controversial proposition, so please, don't @ me... Given that so many elective and non-urgent procedures have been cancelled, bringing surgical cases to an all-time low.... ...And that CRNAs have both a) several years of ICU nursing...