The nurse shortage may be affecting your bottom line in more ways than one. Inadequate nurse staffing may be adversely affecting your readmission rates.
January 12, 2018
The U.S. nurse shortage is the worst it has ever been. By 2030, the U.S. will have over one million nurse job openings. The cause of the nursing shortage can be attributed to the increase of patients and the demand for more nurses. Added to this is the growth of the health care industry coupled with the high turnover of new nurses.
December 12, 2017
Retaining skilled registered nurses is a top concern of human resource professionals and healthcare executives. Organizations are leveraging internal resources to recruit and retain RNs, but some hospitals may be faced with issues that are affecting their plans to reduce turnover and increase recruitment efforts.
October 24, 2017
Avant Healthcare Professionals is supporting our healthcare facilities, nurses and the patients they care for in the Houston area and communities affected by the storm.
September 05, 2017
Healthcare executives are eagerly seeking solutions to alleviate the pressure of nurse shortages on their unit floors. Utilizing a staffing agency for contract nurses is one of the most popular solutions; however, the type of agency you choose can make all the difference between improving your unit in the long-term or providing merely a quick fix and continuing the "churn and burn" cycle.
August 04, 2017
This past week our CEO and founder, Shari Dingle Costantini, and her daughters participated in Operation Mobilizations Freedom Challenge in Estes Park 2017. Avant was a sponsor.
July 17, 2017
Avant Healthcare Professionals CEO Shari Dingle Costantini, RN, MBA recently visited with congressional leaders in Washington, DC to discuss our nation’s current nursing shortage.
February 23, 2017
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The U.S. healthcare industry was already in a state of transition before the 2016 presidential election. No one knows what the next four years will bring as we enter the “post-Obamacare” era, but most expect the current nurse shortage to continue to worsen.
January 17, 2017
By Lesley Hamilton-Powers, RN (US, NZ, UK), Senior Vice President of Operations & Jennifer Elton David, RN, BSN, MHA, Vice President of Clinical Operations
December 06, 2016
The nursing shortage has been a hot topic for years… Everyone is struggling at some level, and indications are that it won’t be resolved anytime soon. It’s important for your healthcare facility to have short-term solutions and long-term strategies to weather the storm.
November 01, 2016
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According to a recent study published in the journal BMJ Open titled “Patient satisfaction and non-U.K. educated nurses: A cross-sectional observational study of English National Health Service Hospitals,” every 10-point increase in the percentage of non-U.K. educated nurses at the hospital bedside is associated with 10% lower odds of patients giving their hospital an excellent or very good rating.
January 20, 2016
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