Hospitals face unsettling facts about a nursing shortage that is expected to only get worse. Projections detail the need for 495,500 replacements in the nursing workforce, bringing the total number of job openings for nurses due to growth and replacements to 1.2 million by 2020, according to the post.
So, how do you align your current resources to build a solid nursing human capital management team? Just like a house, you start with the foundation. Infor Human Capital Management provides you with the tools to start strong and stay strong when there is an ever growing nursing shortage, by using a system that supports strategic people initiatives to help hospitals effectively use their talent. Combine that with the art of hiring based on science, and your organization can more readily identify, hire, develop, reward, and retain the right people for each role. A paper by Duffield et all discusses how the attributes of nursing human capital, along with nurses’ knowledge and experience have been scientifically linked to better quality patient care in areas such as lower rates of patient falls, patient mortality and failure to rescue patients when they require care.
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