A comprehensive overview of how leading hospitals and health systems are implementing workforce models that address the root cause of the nurse staffing problem – lack of flexibility – to ultimately cure their nurse staffing crisis and get out of daily symptom management.
As chronic understaffing has impacted nursing departments across the nation, tireless efforts to hire more nurses than the year before, working long hours, or devising elaborate incentive programs to drive shift pick up, have all come up short… if not failed.
Authored by Danielle Bowie DNP, RN, NE-BC, The Flexible Workforce Handbook [IBSN: 979-8-9888856-0-3] outlines a plethora of best practice recommendations, based on 16 years of Workforce Transformation experience, alongside leaders across variety of organizations in developing innovative workforce strategies to meet their staffing needs. The Handbook concludes with tools, such as a checklist for implementing an internal staffing agency, that help smooth implementation of the book’s ideas to reality.