Nursing

Mercy, based in Chesterfield, Mo., has reduced its spending on agency nurse staffing by 50% through a combination of flexible scheduling, internal workforce pipelines and AI-powered tools. Central to the system’s effort has been deployment of its “Mercy Works on…

Federal budget policies could put the nation’s nursing faculty workforce under great strain, according to a March 20 JAMA Health Forum viewpoint by two leaders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Proposed changes to the U.S. federal…

Hospitals and health systems are adjusting their “boomerang” recruitment strategies to bring nurses back to the bedside. Staff shortages made national headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic, and have been a core issue for many hospitals ever since. In 2022, some…

MaineHealth is piloting a career navigator services program to aid participants in its free certified nursing assistant training. The pilot, which was launched at Maine Medical Center Portland, will help CNAs explore growth opportunities, assist with transitions between specialties and…

Across the nation, hospitals and universities are implementing financial incentive programs to recruit new and experienced nurses. Many of these incentives were developed or enhanced in response to staffing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, Candace Mori, PhD, RN, senior vice…

Nearly a dozen hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are hiring leaders to oversee nursing and patient care operations. Some of the nation’s largest systems — including Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare and Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health — are recruiting…

El Camino Health has long maintained relatively low nurse turnover compared to the national average. But like many hospitals across the country, the Mountain View, Calif.-based system saw nurse departures climb during the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking at 12.7% — the…

Before joining Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System in February as system chief nursing officer, Caren Lewis, BSN, RN, told Becker’s she quickly came to love the organization.  Ms. Lewis’ career so far has spanned from Southern charm and hospitality —…

Philadelphia-based Drexel University and Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care have formed a workforce partnership designed to create clearer pathways into nursing roles, with a focus on strengthening the transition from education to practice. Under the agreement, Cooper employees interested…

WakeMed Raleigh (N.C.) has gone 20 consecutive months without a single workplace violence incident on its medical-surgical unit. It is all thanks to a program created by three nurse leaders. The program started with a partnership between med-surg and psychiatric…