To keep you informed of key healthcare news and industry topics, we invite you to connect with healthcare industry experts by downloading these on-demand Webcasts from the convenience of your own computer. These Web-based seminars provide information on a variety of timely healthcare trends, offering strategies and solutions for your healthcare staffing needs. Whether it’s the current nursing staffing shortage or difficulties with physician and nurse recruitment, we examine the most critical challenges facing the healthcare system today.
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Quality Care and Financial Health: Leveraging Travel Nurses to Improve Your Bottom Line
Quality care is increasingly linked to a hospital’s financial health, and adverse outcomes related to inadequate staffing will have a growing impact on a hospital’s bottom line. Presented by Marcia Faller, RN, MSN, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for AMN Healthcare, this Webcast offers real solutions for getting the maximum return on your nurse staffing investment for improved financial health and better patient outcomes.
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The Healthcare Reform Puzzle Staffing: The Crucial Piece
The healthcare system is in crisis and the 2008 presidential candidates are resolved to fix it. Both candidates have pledged to expand access, extending health insurance to tens of millions of people currently without medical coverage. Learn what the candidates are really saying and how their plans will affect physician and nurse supply both today and in the future.
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Dr. Generation X
Dr. Generation X looks at the change in physician demographics and practice styles in the context of medical staff planning. Find out how younger physicians impact overall FTEs and what causes conflict between younger physicians and older practitioners. This informational Webcast also offers insights into what younger physicians are seeking in a practice, how to integrate them into the medical staff and the best strategies for recruiting younger physicians and appealing to their specific needs.
Update on International Recruitment and the Nursing Shortage: What Impact Will Healthcare Reform Have?
U.S. hospitals have a need for internationally educated nurses to help offset the domestic nursing shortage. The presentation identifies key issues surrounding international recruitment, retention and assimilation, as well as provides an update on legislative and retrogression issues likely to impact your RN staffing.
The Physician Recruiting Iceberg
Just like an iceberg, there is more to physician recruiting than meets the eye. A series of sequential steps must be followed before a hospital or medical group is in position to recruit physicians successfully. It is the planning and teamwork that takes place "beneath the surface" before candidates are even contacted, which leads to consistent physician recruiting success. Nationally noted speaker, Kurt Mosley of The MHA Group, a leader in providing temporary and permanent physician and allied healthcare staffing services, presents a step-by-step guide to recruiting and retaining doctors.
Can Travel Nurses Fuel the Magnet Journey?
Speakers from three Magnet facilities address issues related to the use of travel nurses in Magnet hospitals. The panelists — representing Stanford University Hospitals & Clinics in California; Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Arizona; and High Point Regional Health System in North Carolina — discuss how travel nurses offer a unique perspective that, when effectively leveraged, can not only be invaluable to their placement facility, but actually help fuel the journey. This seminar also was presented at the American Nurses Credentialing Center's 11th Annual Magnet Conference.
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Perception vs. Reality: The Truth About Temporary Nurses
Use of supplemental nurses has been a long-standing norm for many of the nation's hospitals. Now, a groundbreaking study led by Dr. Linda Aiken, director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, alleviates concerns that go along with bringing temporary staff into facilities' core staffing mix. Dr. Aiken presents her findings during this Webcast, delving into common misperceptions related to the use of temporary staffing and quality of care. The Webcast is based on the research, "Supplemental Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Quality of Care," published in
The Journal of Nursing Administration.
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Impact of Future Trends on the Healthcare Workforce
Emerging trends in the delivery and financing of medicine will have a significant impact on the healthcare industry workforce. These include rising healthcare costs, consumer-directed healthcare and inter-generational challenges, and difficulties with nurse and physician recruitment, among other issues. This one-hour Webcast, presented by AMN Healthcare CEO and President Susan Nowakowski, will identify current and future trends and provide hospitals seeking workforce solutions with recommendations for the future.
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The Perfect Storm: An Rx for Effective Nurse Staffing
This Web seminar discusses the demands of keeping today’s hospitals fully staffed. From the problems of turnover to effective daily management and accurate forecasting, learn strategies to help solve your nurse staffing dilemmas. Watch this Webcast now.