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December 4, 2017 - The long-predicted wave of retirements among Baby-Boomer nurses is already underway, new data suggests from the AMN Healthcare 2017 Survey of Registered Nurses.
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December 2, 2017 - The politics of healthcare was a major topic of discussion at the 2017 Healthcare Workforce Summit in San Diego.
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December 1, 2017 - In the wide-ranging survey, the 3,347 respondents provided their views on staff shortages, retirement, the delivery of care, work environment, leadership and other issues. The following are leadership highlights:
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October 17, 2017 - The survey of 141 nurse executives was completed in July 2017 by AMN Healthcare and The Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Professionals to assess nurse leaders’ attitudes and behaviors regarding staffing and recruiting, along with their general roles and responsibilities.
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October 16, 2017 - A major shortage of healthcare workers, coupled with growing demand for patient care services, has placed healthcare providers in one of the most competitive hiring markets in our nation’s history.
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September 20, 2017 - Year after year, the flu season has proven unpredictable in severity and length, which can make this aliment especially difficult to contain over the course of its seasonal run.
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September 19, 2017 - What can the healthcare provider do to best position themselves for success in working with an MSP? Here are some tips for getting more out of your MSP partnership.
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August 15, 2017 - Healthcare industry employment unexpectedly shot up in June and July, countering fears that the prolonged debate over healthcare policy in Washington would dampen both consumer demand for services and robust job growth.
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August 15, 2017 - The demand for occupational therapists is rising, with job growth expected to increase 27% from 2014 through 2024, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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July 18, 2017 - The healthcare industry in the United States has experienced phenomenal employment expansion since the recession. In fact, 35% of the nation’s job growth has been in healthcare, and the industry now employs one in nine Americans.
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July 17, 2017 - Though little resolution has occurred in the healthcare policy debate, the robust rate of jobs growth may be resuming.
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July 17, 2017 - The Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, allowing therapists to be licensed in another state without needing to apply there, will become a reality in 2018, making it easier for physical therapists and physical therapy assistants to work across state lines through an expedited licensing process.
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July 17, 2017 - An acute shortage of healthcare workers, where skyrocketing demand is clearly outpacing worker supply, has left healthcare organizations facing one of the most competitive hiring markets in our nation’s history.
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June 19, 2017 - A new study offers compelling data about a long-standing question in the healthcare industry: Do travel nurses provide the same quality of patient care compared to staff nurses?
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June 18, 2017 - Healthcare employment was the bright spot in an otherwise status quo jobs report for the month of May from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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June 18, 2017 - The continuing expansion of the NLC is moving the country closer to the ultimate goal of national nurse licensing, which is supported by many healthcare providers and nurses’ organizations.
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June 16, 2017 - Diagnostic medical sonographer is one of the fastest growing job types in the United States, provide critical diagnostics for all sorts of medical conditions.
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May 9, 2017 - At 15.7 million jobs and rising, healthcare is poised to become the biggest employment sector in the next few years, adding 5.2 million jobs from 2014.
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May 8, 2017 - The widening gap between job openings and job hires reveal a growing crisis in healthcare talent acquisition and staffing that impacts almost every hospital, health system and other healthcare organization – today and in the future.
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May 7, 2017 - Partnerships with workforce solutions experts now deliver second-generation MSPs, which can include a wide array of services to support the healthcare organizations in managing their contingent and permanent workforce.
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May 6, 2017 - Hospitals and other healthcare organizations hire highly trained travel nurses not only to fill open positions, but also to help patient volume surges.
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April 21, 2017 - In the first three months of 2017, during a time when the media was full of stories about imminent change and uncertainty for the industry, healthcare still added approximately 60,000 new jobs.
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April 18, 2017 - Healthcare employment continued its healthy growth in the first quarter of 2017
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March 21, 2017 - The ACA may be repealed, but what will replace it and when?
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March 19, 2017 - Five major events in which healthcare organizations often turn to travel nurses to expand their staffing
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March 19, 2017 - CT technologists play a crucial role in the Think-A-Head campaign encouraging the appropriate use of computed tomography (CT) scans of children with minor head injuries.
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March 18, 2017 - Since JOLTS began collecting data in 2000, job openings in this sector hit a low of 422,000 in August 2010, but since then have risen steadily, and in the last two years – rapidly.
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March 17, 2017 - Healthcare continues to be one of the nation’s strongest performing industries for jobs.
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February 19, 2017 - Healthcare staffing is critical to patient satisfaction because the healthcare workforce is primarily responsible for the patient’s care experience.
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February 18, 2017 - Two-thirds of healthcare leaders are optimistic about the 2017 outlook for the healthcare industry, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 executives taken after the presidential election.
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February 18, 2017 - The home healthcare industry is growing rapidly, but hospitals and home health agencies are caught in a familiar struggle — finding qualified clinicians to care for patients.
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February 18, 2017 - The rise in job openings signals that the gap of unfilled healthcare jobs continues to grow.
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January 18, 2017 - Physical therapists are movement specialists who treat a number of conditions, these seven treatments may surprise you.
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January 17, 2017 - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit full-practice authority for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and certified nurse-midwives.
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January 16, 2017 - As more positions open up and new roles emerge for Millennial nurses, there is much that retiring nurses and healthcare organizations can do to help the younger generation succeed.
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