According to a recent survey conducted by the American College of Healthcare Executives, workforce challenges – specifically the shortage of registered nurses – ranked as hospital CEOs’ No. 1 concern for the second year in a row, edging out financial challenges to top this daunting list. Reducing workforce costs while maintaining the staff necessary…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the healthcare sector to add about 2.6 million new jobs through 2030, and there are expected to be about 203,200 openings for registered nurses each year. While the demand for RNs is evident, the turnover seen in U.S. health systems is astounding. According to the “2022 NSI National…
SimpliFi MSP seeks to disrupt the healthcare staffing industry, which includes an estimated 1.7 million travel nurses in the U.S., with unique solutions for hospitals to more effectively manage workforce spending and reduce their reliance on contingent labor. Today, U.S. hospitals have challenges keeping patient floors and specialty care units open without travel nurses. But,…
Pre-pandemic onboarding methods made training new nurses a pain point in health systems. Much of this was due to the workload put on nurse preceptors, who were tasked with onboarding new grads while carrying a full patient load. This led to burnout for the nurse preceptor and a poor onboarding experience for new grads. SimpliFi’s…
The healthcare industry is in a staffing crisis. The American College of Healthcare Executives states staffing shortages was the No. 1 issue, overtaking financial challenges, on hospital CEOs’ lists in 2021. The CEOs surveyed said they were short-staffed in their number of registered nurses, technicians, and therapists. When it came to financial challenges, hospital executives…
For healthcare organizations, it feels like nurses are leaving the bedside in droves. Becker’s Hospital Review states nearly 18% of healthcare workers have quit their jobs and 12% have been laid off since early 2020. An even heavier statistic: 31% of the healthcare workers who kept their jobs considered leaving. Some of the top reasons…