Healthcare Staffing Network: Loyal Travel Nurses a Key to Stability and Success
The following article was contributed by Janet Fikany, senior recruiter for Healthcare Staffing Network (HSN), a member of the Travel Nurse Source network of agencies. It’s clear that nursing is still one of the biggest growth industries today, and there are now forecasted projections saying that the shortage of nurses could very well approach 29% by the year 2020. If, in fact, our nation intends to achieve measurable, affordable,...
Nursing Shortage Numbers Keep Traveling Upwards
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has updated their fact sheet about the nursing shortage. As usual, the projections are staggering. There are currently 116,000 vacancies for RNs nationwide, a number which is expected to grow to 500.000 by 2025. In the assessment, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is quoted as stating that 587,000 new nursing positions will be created making nursing the fastest growing profession. On...
The Long-Term Implications of Shortsightedness
Here is a great example of what I have been talking about regarding the nursing shortage. The author of this article in a Michigan newspaper points out how clueless lawmakers in his state are about the implications of the continued nursing shortage. He points out the economic impact for hospitals and individuals and shows how a local college cannot afford to educate all of the applicants to their nursing program causing them to turn...
Plugging Holes and Keeping The Pipeline Filled
The California Assembly has passed a bill that chips away at the nursing shortage in a way that may have some screaming about political correctness and affirmative action. The bill requires community colleges in the state to admit students to the Nursing degree programs based on merit. Apparently lottery admission programs and the like result in students that are more likely to drop out of the nursing program thus leaving a vacancy...
Artificial Intelligence?
It figures. No sooner do I make a commitment to pay more attention to the nursing shortage than someone figures out a solution. Three schools in Marin County, CA will be using artificial patients to train on in lieu of training in a live clinical setting. That’s right. Artificial robotic patients. Twelve of them at a cost of $300,000. “Students can fulfill up to 25 percent of that requirement using simulation equipment. As...