Staffing

This checklist is a tool that can help hospitals and other health care facilities streamline staff acquisition and the onboarding process.

Attracting and retaining skilled health care workers in rural settings is more difficult than ever, with increasing competition from other employers and dwindling applications. This podcast from the American Hospital Association discusses strategies rural health administrators are using to retain their current workforce and attract future generations of health care workers.

This video from the National Academy of Medicine provides an overview of the current health workforce shortage and its implications for access to high-quality care and staff well-being.

This article in "Healthcare Dive" discusses how technology can play a huge role in enabling doctors and nurses to operate at the top of their licenses, while reducing burnout and improving job satisfaction and retention.

This article from the American College of Healthcare Executives highlights four key elements that are essential to managing employee retention - planning, scheduling, follow-up and engagement.

In this video, the Greater Manchester Mental Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust shares how administrators use staff insight to help support employee retention.

The Happy Nurse Programs offer various opportunities to support and guide nurses on their mental wellness journeys. In addition to accountability groups and professional Q&As, Operation Happy Nurse provides many wellness resources including discussion boards, book club, meditations, yoga/fitness videos and access to a dietitian.

This webinar from Relias investigates actionable steps your organization can take to attract, nurture and retain employees.

Watch this video and discover how to address staffing challenges in the rapidly growing health care market, including high turnover, budget constraints and a shortage of skilled workers.

This video from Compt discusses essential strategies for health care organizations to retain top talent and ensure long-term success.

The staff recruiting landscape for health systems has changed both as a result of larger demographic shifts as well as the continued impact of COVID-19. This section of the American Hospital Association's Strengthening the Health Care Workforce guide focuses on recruitment and retention strategies.

This resource demonstrates how leaders can strategically apply human factors and ergonomics to reduce occupational stress on clinicians and others.

This Resource Snapshot from the American Hospital Association highlights training and other resources to help hospital leaders strengthen and support workforce well-being.

As part of the first federal campaign to address health care worker burnout, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released an evidence-informed and actionable guide for the nation’s hospital leaders to improve health care worker wellbeing. This guide provides a step-by-step process for hospitals to start making organizational-level changes that will impact and improve the mental health of their employees.

Gain insight into the causes of nurse burnout and learn how to improve retention. This white paper from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership explores the critical issue of nurse burnout and shares three evidence-based strategies you can implement right now to make a positive impact in your facility.

This podcast from the Society of Critical Care Medicine discusses the links among patient safety, workforce retention and how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the landscape. It also explores effective staff retention strategies that can impact patient care and enhance the resilience of health care organizations.

To address the alarming rates of burnout and staff turnover in health care, this white white paper from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a guide for organizations to better understand the barriers to joy in work and create meaningful change.

With the current shortage of health care workers, the number of staff needs to dramatically increase to keep up with the demand for care. It is more important than ever for facilities to attract and keep employees. This video shares practical retention strategies.

This infographic from the National Health Service Corps describes various factors contributing to clinician burnout in rural and tribal areas, with related resources and strategies to mitigate challenges.

Creating a healthy work environment (HWE) enables nurses to provide the highest standards of patient care while being fulfilled at work. Learn more about the six HWE standards from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, conduct a free assessment of your unit, and find evidence-based resources needed to build and sustain an HWE at your facility.

Health care provider shortages have historically challenged managing patient surge during disasters. This challenge was made even greater during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This new six-part podcast series from the Workplace Change Collaborative explores the drivers and consequences of burnout and moral injury among health care workers, and identifies practical strategies to improve well-being.

This fact sheet provides demographic, training/education, employment, COVID-19 impact and workforce projection data for registered nurses (RNs) in the United States.

This podcast from the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel discuss how N95 masks were protecting, but also causing facial pressure injuries to the nurses on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Confronting and controlling disruptive behavior is one of the most challenging problems for health care administrators. This article by the Medical Group Management Association highlights prevention strategies for organizations.

This American Hospital Association podcast episode features a discussion with clinical leaders from Fisher-Titus Medical Center in rural Ohio about workforce recruitment and retention, including a concentrated effort on recruiting international nurses to ensure patient care in the community.

In this presentation, the authors investigate the impact of disruptive physician behavior on patient care and the workplace, as well as prevention and management strategies for organizations.

Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio, addressed its nursing workforce gap by recruiting international nurses and working to create a welcoming and supportive environment. Read more about the lessons the facility learned to improve the program.

This resource from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses provides guidance to help organizations address the complex challenges of nurse staffing into daily operations and patient care.

In this podcast, Tiffany Love, a senior administrator at the University of Vermont Health Network in MIddlebury, VT, talks about how she attracts and retains nurses for her rural facility.

This tool kit contains information and resources on various factors that impact staff retention and a stable workforce, including career development, hospital culture, and new employee on-boarding.

In this fourth installment of Vivian Health’s annual Healthcare Workforce report, the authors examine the attitudes of health care professionals about their careers, well-being and lifestyle to better understand rapidly changing employment dynamics. This survey was conducted December 12, 2023 – January 11, 2024, and includes responses from 863 clinicians.

In this podcast, Jonathan Ripp, M.D., senior associate dean for well-being and resilience and chief wellness officer of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses his role as one of the nation's first chief wellness officers, and how the importance of employee wellness has evolved in hospitals and health systems in the last decade.