Hospitals and healthcare facilities across Arizona face similar challenges: navigating complexities of budget and financial concerns alongside considerations for improving the quality patient of care, and looking for solutions to nurse staffing challenges.
Healthcare facilities and hospitals in Goodyear, AZ, need to balance these challenges, which are inedibly linked. They need responsive staffing solutions that are affordable and flexible.
Nursa’s PRN staffing is the best solution for Goodyear, AZ, hospitals and healthcare facilities. Keep reading to learn why.
How Hospitals in Goodyear Save on Staffing Costs
It's undeniably true that the cost of staffing for hospitals and healthcare centers is a major portion of the budget for operations. These budgets are being stretched—which may seem like a contradiction in the face of Arizona being named as one of the top ten states with the lowest nurse-to-population ratios. However, while a shortage of nursing staff means that technically, a hospital is paying fewer staff nursing salaries and benefits, the costs associated with navigating the nursing shortage are high. Furthermore, research shows that healthcare executives, CFOs, and managers identify nurse staffing as a “significant challenge.”
In truth, the complex challenge of nurse staffing shortages is expensive for several reasons. According to Becker's Hospital Review:
- Nurse turnover is expensive, costing facilities an estimated $40,000-$64,500 for a single staff RN.
- The national RN turnover rate is 22.5 percent.
- Travel nurse contracts to cover vacant positions are costly, "For every 20 travel RNs eliminated, a hospital can save $3,140,000 on average".
According to the Arizona Department of Health, Goodyear has around 225 nurse practitioners (NPs) and about 1,650 registered nurses (RNs). No data was available for the number of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) or certified nursing assistants (CNAs).
As a bustling suburb city in the orbit of Phoenix, Goodyear has the benefit of being able to pull from a wider net of potential working clinicians, and yet nurse recruitment takes considerable time—an average of 86 days—which means around three months of operating around a vacancy until it can be filled.
How Can Goodyear Hospitals Save Money?
It's pretty clear from the aforementioned data that while travel nurse contracts guarantee a position is covered, they also cost facilities an enormous amount of money.
So, how can hospital and facility managers fill holes in the schedule?
The answer lies in an alternative, more flexible, and affordable solution: use Nursa to contract per diem (PRN) healthcare workers.
Contracting PRN nurses and CNAs not only fills the gaps in the schedule, but it benefits your present nursing staff physically and mentally as well. Nurse burnout is rampant—the turnover rate isn't high without reasons—and studies and surveys continue to show that feeling overworked and undervalued are contributors to nursing turnover. Utilizing PRN staff isn't only a short-term staffing solution. It also serves your retention efforts because it demonstrates that your facility prioritizes sufficient staffing.
How to Find Per Diem Healthcare Workers
Sourcing PRN nurses and clinicians is easiest with Nursa, the healthcare staffing platform that connects you to RNs, LPNs, and CNAs in Goodyear for PRN shifts—as many as you need—when you need them. Using Nursa makes it easy to contract nurses on call. No more expensive contracts with travel nurses that require 8-week commitments (at minimum). Contracting PRN staff through Nursa means you contract one shift at a time, which allows your scheduler the flexibility to adjust staffing levels alongside the ebb and flow of patient intake.
Who are PRN Clinicians?
All independent clinicians on Nursa are required to provide a professional profile, and their nursing licenses must be verified before they can request shifts. PRN clinicians are often nurses and CNAs who already have another job, so while they likely wouldn't respond to your HR department's typical recruitment efforts, they will look to pick up shifts here and there.
Some PRN healthcare workers are retired but have maintained active licenses while others are CNAs who are studying in a nursing program, or an RN working on an advanced degree who can't commit to full-time staff positions but want to work periodically throughout the week as they can around their other responsibilities. One of the major benefits of using Nursa is gaining access to local clinicians you may otherwise not find.
Solve Acute and Post-Acute Staffing Needs
If you are concerned about qualifications or if your facility can use the services provided by Nursa, you’ll be delighted to hear that there are no specific qualifications or requirements. Any facilities searching for PRN nursing professionals can use our services at any time.
Long-term care facilities and hospitals can post PRN shifts on Nursa.
Long-term care, often referred to as "post-acute" facilities, includes nursing homes, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, memory care, and others. Acute care includes hospitals and long-term acute care hospitals, or LTACHs.
Nursa Is an Affordable Digital Staffing Solution
Nursa leverages technology to make the entire process quicker and easier. Register your facility and follow the prompts to begin posting shifts for RNs, LPNs, and CNAs. You'll be able to review the professional profiles of the clinicians who express interest in your shifts and select your preferred candidate.
There are no hidden fees. Nursa is not a subscription service and is intentionally designed to be flexible to your needs. This means there is not a maximum or minimum number of shifts or clinicians that you must contract. You post shifts and contract PRN nurses and nursing assistants only as you need them, and you only pay for shifts worked.
Use Nursa for Local Nurse Staffing Solutions in Goodyear
What happens when a nurse calls off a shift? Don't try to cajole one of your staff nurses into covering a shift on their day off, instead log into the Nursa app, and post the shift. Make Nursa part of your staffing solution toolbox for finding a nurse last minute as well as finding nurses in advance to cover staff vacancies or approved vacation time off. Register today and start posting your PRN shifts.
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