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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nurses Week is a great time to examine if your organization is doing all it can to create an environment where nurses want to work, thrive, and grow their careers. Our Nurse Engagement Toolkit gives healthcare talent management professionals resources for creating a culture and employer brand that will help you continue to attract, source, align, and develop highly engaged nursing teams.
Healthcare recruiters and talent management professionals know that nurses play a vital role across many hospital departments. As the number of patients increases, so does the demand for these essential professionals. To properly understand the challenges you’re facing in attracting, hiring, training, and retaining nurse staff, you need a good understanding of the current and future landscape.
In today’s market where a third of hospitals have an RN vacancy rate of more than 10% (according to Compdata Surveys), healthcare talent management professionals need to examine their organizations to see if their culture is doing its job. Does your culture attract nurse candidates, or is it driving away some of the nurses you already have? Take our quiz to find out if your team is creating an organizational culture that attracts and retains top nursing talent!
