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November 16, 2016 - In the rapidly changing healthcare industry, shortages of nearly all types of healthcare professionals are becoming more pronounced, and the gap of unfilled staff positions is widening.
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November 16, 2016 - October was a pretty good month for the U.S. economy. The nation logged its 73rd straight month of job growth, and unemployment ticked down slightly from 5% in September to 4.9% in October.
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November 16, 2016 - Nurse scheduling and staffing problems can impact quality of care, patient safety problems, staff burnout and turnover, and the bottom line.
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November 16, 2016 - Physical therapists, particularly those who specialize in pediatrics, have an increasingly important role to play in combating childhood obesity.
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October 26, 2016 - The growing need for healthcare professionals, fueled by the Affordable Care Act and other factors, has surged to all-time highs with no slowdown in sight, said Ralph Henderson, President, Professional Services and Staffing at AMN Healthcare, the nation’s leader and innovator in healthcare staffing ...
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October 26, 2016 - In a month when the overall national unemployment rate barely budged, healthcare continued to drive most job growth in the United States.
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October 26, 2016 - Many K-12 schools are increasingly turning to contingent labor as they struggle to fill positions for qualified therapists of special needs children.
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October 26, 2016 - Joel Allison, CEO at Baylor Scott & White, used his keynote to forcefully call for hospitals to “change healthcare,” saying “if you do not like change, you’ll hate being irrelevant.”
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September 28, 2016 - The long-anticipated ICD-10 changeover implemented last October wasn’t as rocky as expected.
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September 28, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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September 28, 2016 - Hospitals and health systems can meet their complex staffing challenges by looking to an approach they already understand well in other parts of daily operations – knowing when to buy instead of build.
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September 28, 2016 - NPs have made significant progress toward full-practice authority, including in 21 states
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August 18, 2016 - In response to America’s opioid epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recommended a different option for those who suffer from chronic pain — physical therapy.
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August 18, 2016 - Love them or hate them, 12-hour shifts have become the norm for nurses working in hospitals. But a growing body of evidence shows that these long shifts can present risks to patients and nurses.
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August 17, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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August 16, 2016 - AMN Healthcare has named veteran healthcare executive Matthew Zubiller as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, a new role that will help lead the continued development and expansion of AMN, the leader and innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services across the nation.
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July 12, 2016 - Now that labor shortages have hit the allied healthcare workforce, hospitals and healthcare organizations will have to get more innovative in staff planning and management.
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July 12, 2016 - Now more than ever, it is vital for healthcare organizations to have succession planning for leadership.
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July 12, 2016 - The lack of adequate nurse staffing can result in longer lengths of stay, patient dissatisfaction, higher readmissions and more adverse events — all things that can decrease quality and increase impacts on the bottom line.
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July 12, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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June 15, 2016 - Like the weather, flu season is unpredictable. You can expect it to hit in the winter months, but you have no idea how severe it will be. And despite your best planning, it can surprise you.
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June 14, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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June 13, 2016 - Starting salaries for both primary care and specialist physicians spiked in the last 12 months, according to a report released this month, reflecting the continually rising demand – and persistent shortage – for physicians.
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May 17, 2016 - These nurses showed an unwavering commitment to excellence and passion for the nursing profession that goes far beyond their job requirements.
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May 16, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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May 14, 2016 - As the American population ages and needs more healthcare, waves of nurses retire, and a growing number of newly insured patients enter the healthcare system, the worsening nursing shortage will remain a major healthcare challenge.
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April 20, 2016 - There are a variety of options for contingent staffing – and for managing the workforce once it’s staffed – that can relieve the increasing complexity of healthcare staffing.
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April 19, 2016 - “Right person, right place, right time” is one of the oldest mantras in workforce management. Every healthcare provider and staffing vendor talks about it. But what does it really mean, and how do you accomplish it?
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April 19, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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March 15, 2016 - The modern process of finding the right nurses, physicians and allied professionals for a healthcare enterprise is almost completely different from just a decade ago.
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March 14, 2016 - Healthcare organizations struggling to meet critical staffing needs are now using a method other industries have relied on for years: recruitment process outsourcing, or RPO.
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March 14, 2016 - A positive nursing work environment with adequate staffing can greatly influence patient perceptions of care.
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March 14, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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February 9, 2016 - What will be the fastest growing industry in the United States for jobs over the next decade? Home healthcare services.
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February 9, 2016 - The margin for error is increasingly thin in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive healthcare industry.
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February 9, 2016 - With hospitals, clinics and practices feeling the pinch of healthcare practitioner shortages, it seems counterintuitive that registered nurses fresh out of nursing school might have a hard time getting a job.
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February 9, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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January 10, 2016 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment
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January 8, 2016 - By 2024, healthcare job openings due to growth and replacement needs will be 5,069,200 – nearly 5.1 million jobs to fill.
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January 7, 2016 - The need for nurses with the ability to practice across multiple specialties is at an all-time high.
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January 6, 2016 - Despite an increase in new graduates, the shortage of physical therapy professionals is growing.
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