Different from chronic, acute care is the kind of medical intervention for patients with specific treatable illnesses. They may experience this care at a doctor’s office, clinic, emergency room, or ambulatory surgery center. With HIPAA, there is a level of compliance your facility needs to take with employees who provide acute and post-acute care, but… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Hiring Travel Nurses
Company culture is a pretty big buzzword these days. In your healthcare company, hospital, or clinic, how can you create a positive company culture that will attract top talent and keep them happy and engaged on the job? Let’s take a closer look on what makes a great company culture and how you can work… Read more »
Maybe not everyone, but most people are connected through Facebook today. Social media is making an already–small world even smaller. Did you know you can keep your entire team of travel nurses in touch with one another by creating a Facebook group to facilitate connection? How does this help build community? There are a lot of ways,… Read more »
Travel nurses are a completely different type of employee than your full-time staff. So how can you train and orient them to the job in their first days? Onboarding is important for every team member, whether they’re short term or long term. Whether that first day, or first week, is good for bad, their onboarding… Read more »
There is, of course, a certain impermanence when it comes to working with travel nurses on your staff. However, just because someone will only be with your organization for a finite period of time, that doesn’t mean they should be treated in a less fair way than you full-time employees. From a travel nurse’s perspective,… Read more »
Travel nursing sounds so wonderful in theory. And it can be in practice, but if you’re not comfortable with the process, the entire concept can feel foreign and daunting. What are the biggest fears keeping you away from a career as a travel nurse? If you’ve thought of something, chances are someone else has solved… Read more »
Travel nurses have a difficult job. Not only do they need to be skilled in their specific job and specialization, but they also need to feel comfortable walking into vastly different environments on a regular basis. It can be hard to feel at home in a job where you are always the outsider. But this… Read more »