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Oct 01, 2008 Nurse Leader Applying a Systems Thinking Model for Effective Staffing As if the pressures of running modern health care organizations aren’t challenging enough, finding time to invest in uncovering new and sustainable solutions to staffing challenges can be just as daunting.
Oct 01, 2008 Health Leaders No Room for Waste A New Jersey hospital reduces labor costs with a new Web-based shift-bidding system.
Jul 01, 2008 Healthcare Informatics A Shift in Staffing Web-based, self-service scheduling systems are helping facilities increase clinician satisfaction, manage patient throughput, and reduce costs.
Jul 01, 2008 Health Data Management Better Scheduling Boosts Productivity Using software to simplify staff scheduling sounds simple enough. But those who’ve implemented the latest scheduling software say that taking full advantage of the technology is a complex task that can pay off in much better management of productivity.
Jul 01, 2008 Healthcare IT News Hospital scheduling shifts Of all the headaches that come with the nursing profession, scheduling problems can be a killer migraine for both managers and staff. Ideally, managers want to know that each shift is properly staffed and nurses want the work slots they request.
Jun 28, 2008 Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC featured by local TV stations
Jun 13, 2008 Healthcare Finance News Concerro helps hospitals, nurses meet staffing needs Three Florida not-for-profit hospitals are reportedly saving more than $1 million by using Concerro’s automated nurse staffing solution to fill open shifts.
Jun 13, 2008 Healthcare IT News Hospitals see benefits in automated scheduling The days of nurses filling out their schedules on paper and rushing to the hospital to grab prime vacation slots are rapidly fading, thanks to the advent of automated staffing solutions.
Jun 01, 2008 Advance for Nurses Staffing Success In Florida's competitive labor market, healthcare organizations need creative and reliable solutions to ensure the effective use of existing nursing resources while improving retention and job satisfaction. When faced with an ongoing need to cost-effectively fill open shifts and meet other scheduling challenges, our health system decided to make the best use of our own workforce by implementing an online staffing management program. Less than a year later, we have reduced the cost of contract labor by $1.56 million, completely automated the process of filling open shifts across the health system and empowered our own nursing resources to help meet the health system's staffing effectiveness goals.
Jun 01, 2008 Nursing Economics Evidence-Based Staffing: Potential Roles for Informatics Over the last 15 years, evidence has been accumulating relating higher levels of nurse staffing in both quantity and experience to lower rates of adverse patient outcomes. Consequently, to promote quality patient outcomes efficiently, making staffing decisions based in evidence is of increasing importance.