How High-Performance Work Practices Can Improve Patient Safety
When you and your team begin to focus on the four key high-performance work practices, you’ll increase employee engagement, improving patient outcomes and safety. Find out how.
10 Tips for Onboarding New Healthcare Grads
Your onboarding process is the first tool that your organization has to retaining talented employees; these 10 tips can help you engage new healthcare graduates from day one.
Ensure Clinician Shift Coverage During Summer Vacations
Summer has begun and healthcare organizations’ clinicians will be taking their much-needed time off in the coming weeks. To comply with patient-staffing ratios and uphold your standards of care, healthcare organizations need to ensure shift coverage when employees are out on vacation. If you don’t plan ahead, managing shift coverage can be a nightmare. Find out what you can do.
Environmental Services Jobs in Healthcare: Create a Safe Workplace by Hiring Smart
In healthcare facilities, employee and patient safety relies heavily on the department of environmental services. Hiring well for these jobs begins by accurately representing the job and its associated duties during the hiring process, while emphasizing the integral role these employees play in creating a safe healthcare workplace for all. Learn more.
Employee Safety: How the Healthcare Talent Management Lifecycle Can Help
More workers are injured in the healthcare and social industry sector than any other. Contagious diseases, spilled blood, and frantic patients can all impact employee safety – not to mention slips, trips, and falls. Understanding the safety issues will allow you to leverage the talent management lifecycle to help maximize healthcare employee safety.
5 Tips to Write Healthcare Job Postings Beyond the Job Description
When we’re pressed for time, it’s tempting to cut and paste sections from a job description when writing healthcare job postings. Resist that temptation — job descriptions and job postings are not one in the same! Job postings are a key recruitment marketing tactic. Here are five tips for writing better healthcare job postings, beyond the job description.
How Do You Measure Up? The 4 Key Performance Dimensions of Our Core Recruiting Benchmarks Survey
The results of our Core Recruiting Benchmarks Survey consistently show that healthcare recruiters are inadequately prepared to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Take a closer look at each of the four key performance dimensions and think about how your organization would compare.
Why the American Hospital Association Endorses HealthcareSource Talent Management Solutions
At AHA Health Forum, we evaluate programs and services that help our hospital members improve operations and achieve excellence. And talent management is essential to those operations. We have found in our assessment that hospitals’ needs very closely match the approach we see and value in HealthcareSource.
Recruitment Marketing’s Role in Delivering Quality Patient Care
Recruiting high-quality candidates for hard-to-fill positions is one of the primary business challenges healthcare organizations face today. The healthcare workforce shortage is widespread and growing, forcing changes in patient care and requiring a significant shift in the way organizations source, attract, engage and close top talent. Healthcare organizations that do not add recruitment marketing software and modern marketing practices to their toolkits will be fighting an uphill battle for top talent.
Today’s Nurses, Tomorrow’s Leaders: Developing Nurse Leadership Skills
Even though there are more than 4 million active nurses in the U.S., healthcare organizations are challenged to fill nurse leadership roles. Nurses need a way to gain the higher levels of education and training required to assume these more demanding leadership positions. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has risen to that challenge. Find out what your organization could do, too.
