January 18, 2018 – It’s no secret that the rate of nurse burnout is excessive. In a field where emotional and physical stress is high, nurses are sometimes considering leaving their jobs within only a few of years of obtaining their license. Factor in the critical nursing shortage the U.S. is…
November 1, 2018 – Building nurse schedules is a complex and time-consuming process. With a lot of moving parts and circumstances to take into consideration, determining the right amount and types of staff needed can change up until the start of a shift. Many organizations have turned to advanced technology to…
November 8, 2018 – The vast majority of nurses are overworked because of an ever-growing skills gap in the healthcare sector, and nursing managers are not immune. The more time spent on administrative tasks, the less time spent on critical patient care. Without an efficient labor management plan in place, it…
November 1, 2018 – In many hospitals across the country, nurse scheduling is still being done on basic spreadsheets or even pen and paper, with managers using little more than intuition, guesswork, or simply the previous schedule period to plan the appropriate number and type of staff to match patient volume….