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4 tips to get better quality out of your contingent workforce staff

In today’s business environment, efficiency is prudent to create successful results. Many of us are all trying to accomplish more by working smarter, rather than harder. If you work at an organization that utilizes contingent labor as a resource for supplemental staff, be sure to research whom you partner with, and identify efficient ways to track their quality of performance….

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Planning, implementing and analyzing results – how one health system fixed contingent staffing

Contingent staffing is often a complicated web of inefficient processes cobbled together within a health system. But it can be a streamlined operation that incorporates the various silos along the continuum of care to maximize cost savings, quality and efficiency. Recently, Pamela Russell, director of nursing support services with Harris Health in Dallas, TX, presented to an AHA audience in the AHA…

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Putting the right nurse with the right assignment

ShiftWise recently attended the Value for Nurse Staffing Conference in Bend, OR. There was a lot of chatter about how important it is to staff the right nurse with the right assignment. With the effects of healthcare reform being felt, readmission penalties and patient satisfaction scores are a top of mind priority. Getting the right nurse the first time around…

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Contingent staffing and the 2nd curve

By now, healthcare professionals have no doubt heard the 1st and 2nd curve terminology. It was first introduced in a book called The Second Curve by Ian Morrison in 1996 and has been popularized in recent years by the American Hospital Association, especially within a 2011 report called Second Curve Road Map for Health Care. For the uninitiated, it’s essentially a…

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Transformation of healthcare Q & A

ShiftWise’s Jeff Niles was recently a featured panel speaker at an AHA Member Initiative entitled “RoundTable for HR Professionals: The Transformation of Health Care”. The joint event with the AHA and ASHHRA’s local chapter in Indianapolis (ISHHRA) featured a roundtable discussion with local healthcare HR executives and leaders. We recently sat down with Jeff to get his insight from this…

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