Contract Staffing Partnerships

Contract farming. Partnerships for growth

Effective Staffing Takes a Village: Creating the Staffing Ecosystem.

The traditional approaches to staffing and scheduling are often ineffective in assuring sufficient budgeting and deployment of staff to assure the right nurse at the right time for the right cost. As hospital merger activity increases, this exercise is further complicated by the need to rationalize staffing across multiple enterprises and standardize systems and processes. This Midwest hospital...

Nursing home staffing standards: their relationship to nurse staffing levels.

PURPOSE This study reviews staffing standards from the 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine if these standards are related to nursing home staffing levels. DESIGN AND METHODS Rules and regulations for states' nursing home staffing standards were obtained for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Nurse staffing data were obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Addressing Hospital Staffing Shortages

Several hospitals face nurse staffi ng shortages for surgeries. This research focuses on building a system with a Baxter robot capable of identifying surgical tools using computer vision and delivering them to the surgeon on demand. This would deal with the issue of nurse unavailability during simple surgical procedures. The key aspects of the project were testing the accuracies of various arti...

Absenteeism and Nurse Staffing

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses with similar skills to similar inpatient units, adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds available nurse shifts, and choosing the number of nurses who float to different units depending on realized demand. All of these decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple nursing units of two hospitals to...