October 25, 2016 – Jackie Larson takes the reader on her personal and professional journey to the leadership rank, offering great perspective into what a new president (or any new leader) may come to discover as they settle in and take charge. Click here to read the article from the ADVANCE for Nurses.
October 14, 2016 – Jackie Larson provides thoughts on how hospitals can engage in certain practices that exacerbate the nursing shortage. She offers three common staffing practices that can go a long way to improving morale, work-life balance, and, as a result, retention. Click here to read the article from the ADVANCE for Nurses.
November 18, 2015 – Avantas’ SVP, Jackie Larson, discusses an all-too-common staffing scenario and provides insight on two strategies that can help relieve this and similarly challenging staffing situations. Click here to read the article in ADVANCE for Nurses.
June 16, 2015 – This latest article from the ADVANCE Healthcare Network offers advice from Avantas’ president, Chris Fox, on the characteristics individuals (and organizations) need to be successful in healthcare today. Click here to read the article.
January 2, 2015 – In this article from ADVANCE for Nurses Avantas’ CNO Patsy Gleim looks at the facts relative to the projected nursing shortage, such as more Americans covered by insurance, the aging nursing workforce, and the projected growth needed to keep up with forecasted demand. Patsy then points to three things most hospitals…
December 10, 2014 – In the second and final installment of this series from ADVANCE for Nurses, Jenny Korth, CMPE, provides detailed insight into the three areas new nurse manager experience is typically lacking: productivity, budgeting and staffing strategies. She also speaks to the impact an organization’s culture plays in preparing new nurse managers to…
December 10, 2014 – In part one of this two-part series from ADVANCE for Nurses, Jenny Korth, CMPE, breaks down the knowledge gaps in a new nurse manager’s training, identifying the challenges they often encounter when they begin a business-focused career path. Jenny provides strategies, such as having a mentor, that can help nurse managers…
May 28, 2014 – Avantas Senior Consultant, Jenny Korth, CMPE, shares strategies on how hospitals can leverage their data and tools to improve care and efficiencies. Click here to read the article from ADVANCE for Nurses.
October 30, 2013 – In this article from ADVANCE for Nurses, Avantas SVP Jackie Larson talks about how the development of a workforce plan that utilizes best practice labor management strategies (including advanced analytics) and forecasting methodologies can help organizations develop sound staffing plans that ensure staffing ratios are met, and done so cost effectively….