Keep Your Nursing Team Engaged Despite Pandemic Burnout
In 2020, the first wave of COVID-19 brought forth a generous amount of love and appreciation for healthcare workers. As they worried about the scarcity of PPE, bringing COVID-19 home to their families, and dealing with changing guidelines, they were showered with community support. However, as the pandemic carries on, community support has waned while…
SimpliFi Celebrates 10 Years of Business
It started in 2011 with the dream of being a different kind of MSP. Now, SimpliFi is celebrating 10 years of business and tremendous growth. On this special anniversary, SimpliFi President James Quick, Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer Bambi Gore, MSN, FNP-BC, and Senior Client Relationship Manager Kim Young give us insight into SimpliFi’s…
SimpliFi’s CAP Program Case Study
SimpliFi’s Confidence Accelerating Practice (CAP) program places qualified and dedicated preceptors in your health system to build novice nurse graduates into confident and experienced RNs. CAP is a program that meets client challenges with strategic solutions. The results speak for themselves. The Client’s Challenge: SimpliFi’s client lacked qualified preceptors to onboard new RN…
Pride in the C-Suite
Shining a light on diversity in the healthcare staffing industry with SimpliFi’s COO Laurie Bertolacci has more than 25 years of experience in workforce strategy, recruiting and staffing. She spent 18 of those years at an international staffing firm, holding nearly a dozen roles throughout the company’s legal, IT, and finance departments and developing the…
New Grad RNs and COVID-19: Pandemic Impact
The healthcare world has drastically changed since the onset of COVID-19. Nurses have played a key role in response to the pandemic, providing care to those sick with COVID-19 while also juggling their other duties. As such, many nurses have been working longer, more intense shifts, raising questions about how the pandemic will impact the…
Covering Your Hospital’s Shortage: Do You Have Enough New Grad RNs?
Will I have enough new grad RNs to make a dent in my hospital’s shortage? If not, why? This question is all too familiar to today’s CNO. Many hospitals find themselves unable to hire enough new graduate nurses to ease their internal shortage. Why is this? Many hospitals lack the appropriate number of qualified preceptors to…