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Time is our most limited resource and a universal need.
Can we make it go a little further?
Smarter healthcare staffing in Durham, NC, with Nursa
Time and money.
The rising cost of living combined with the nursing shortage, drives healthcare wages up in Durham. Housing prices have skyrocketed to an average of over $423,000 in Durham, compared to $328,000 in the state at large.
The financial stress of the living expenses affects the healthcare workforce, and the higher wages weigh on facility budgets. We all need to make ends meet.
Another factor facing directors of nursing (DONs), schedulers, and healthcare managers is the time it takes to hire qualified frontline staff—often over 60 days. This delay increases workloads and pressure for managers and nurses.
Advanced solutions, such as the Nursa PRN staffing platform, offer a new approach:
- Rapid coverage for schedule gaps
- Reduced costs due to flexible per diem staffing
- A balance of PRN healthcare workers with regular staff
Flexible staffing: Aligning skill sets with specific needs
What kinds of nursing clinicians do facilities need?
Facility staffing needs vary widely.
- Long-term care facility and home health staffing usually require more CNAs for assistance with daily living.
- Full-service hospitals and clinics need more RNs for more complex care, as well as LPNs and CNAs.
- Outpatient clinics often need more CMAs because they provide a cost-effective workforce trained to perform both clinical support and administrative workflow demands.
Who takes care of the patients?
Facilities rely on registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), and certified medical assistants (CMAs). Let’s take a look at their roles and skills.
- Registered Nurses: Provide complex assessment and care, coordinate treatment, and supervise staff across settings, including acute, chronic, and specialized care. Skills include patient education, leadership, critical thinking, and emergency response.
- Licensed Practical Nurses: Deliver intermediate nursing care under RN supervision, bridging basic and advanced care. Skills include medication administration, wound care, monitoring patient status, and communication with patients and families.
- Certified Nursing Assistants: Help patients with daily living tasks and monitor basic health indicators. Skills include bathing, feeding, patient comfort, and assistance with mobility.
- Certified Medical Assistants: Support outpatient clinical and administrative tasks, aiding physicians and nurses. Skills include clinical support (taking vitals, preparing patients, administering injections), administrative tasks, assisting physicians and nurses mainly in outpatient settings.
All nurses and clinicians need strong communication and teamwork skills, attention to detail, proficiency with electronic health records (EHRs), compassion, resilience, and flexibility.
How do we find the resources we need? Staffing options
Traditional agencies, internal float pools, travel nurses, and Nursa’s on-demand model all have advantages and disadvantages for medical staffing. Let’s look at some of the pros and cons of each.
You may weigh in the factors regarding time, cost, and quality when making your choice among nurse staffing companies.
Traditional nurse staffing agencies in Durham, NC, and internal float pools work with permanent or long-term hires, while travel nursing and Nursa provide short-term solutions. A combination may give you the best results.
Nursa doesn’t charge hire-away fees, which gives you the opportunity to get to know clinicians on the job before you consider offering them a permanent position.
Related: “A close look at the top nursing trends of 2025”
Why are facilities in Durham, NC, turning to Nursa?
On top of the advantages mentioned in the table above, Nursa is cost-effective, has no long-term contracts, and puts the control of candidate selection in the hands of the facility without the administrative hassle.
Time
Time is money, as they say. But it’s not only money, it’s also quality.
Nursa dramatically accelerates the process of filling vacancies, reducing long weeks into mere hours.
Sometimes, last-minute callouts take up your tired, after-work hours, adding stress to your job and draining your patience.
Nursa takes care of the task, allowing you to dedicate your energy and patience to thoughtful, compassionate management, empowering your healthcare team, and fostering high-quality care.
Lower costs
Nursa connects you with PRN nurses right here in Durham, NC, who operate as independent contractors. This means you aren’t responsible for benefits, vacation time, or paid time off.
How much does that save you?
You might think it would make the nurses discontent, but they receive a higher hourly wage, and are naturally happy with that. For the facility, the savings outweigh the higher hourly pay, and keeps PRN nurses coming back for more shifts.
You avoid hiring more permanent staff, eliminate agency overhead and fees, and with the PRN staff, pay only for shifts worked.
Flexibility
The facility needs flexible staffing options to cover emergency staffing, contingent staffing for high patient census times, vacations, or callouts. The nurse longs for flexible scheduling to care for family, study, or pursue a hobby.
The Nursa PRN nursing model offers this flexibility for both.
Nursa leverages technology to your advantage, supporting staffing for hospitals, long-term care facilities, and clinics, modernizing the recruitment process. The platform also has partnerships that expand its capacity to serve you.
The switch is not complicated. You do not have to change your entire recruiting system. In fact, you can integrate Nursa with your existing scheduling tools.
The story of Forest Grove Rehabilitation
The Forest Grove Rehabilitation and Care Center has 120 clinicians on staff and primarily uses Nursa to fill weekend shifts and cover last-minute call-outs.
"I love being able to quickly post a shift and let Nursa take care of it for me."
With the global nursing shortage, Forest Grove felt the strain of being short-staffed when their full-time clinicians needed time off. At the end of the week, they often had several vacant weekend shifts due to short-notice callouts.
"We used to sit in a room for hours looking at the schedule, trying to fill gaps. You're looking at the salaries of five different people, trying to find staffing, when I could just post it in 30 seconds. The time savings speaks for itself.” —Kayla Van Roekel, Administrator at Forest Grove
How does Nursa work?
Nursa connects you with nurses who request your posted PRN shifts. The platform ensures safety and trust in several ways.
- We automatically verify the nurses’ licensing credentials and conduct background checks before they can pick up a shift.
- The platform features clinician reliability ratings.
- You can make a “Favorites list” of the nurses who have worked well for your institution, and enable the Auto-Schedule feature to automatically schedule any of the nurses on the list who request your shifts.
- You set the shift prices. Nursa can inform pricing decisions with dynamic, data-driven guidance.
- Real-time updates and communication in the app facilitate rapid responses.
- The Nursa Support team can offer help if needed.
Nursa is straightforward and user-friendly. Download the app to your mobile phone.
How do I get started?
It is quick and easy to start using the Nursa PRN staffing platform in Durham, NC.
- Create your facility user account.
- Register and connect to your facility profile.
- Customize a facility compliance list tailored to your specific needs.
- Start posting vacant shifts.
- Review the applicants and schedule clinicians, or enable Auto-Schedule, and your shifts are covered.
You may request a demo to walk you through the registration, learn how to optimize budgets, and develop a balanced staffing strategy. There are no contracts or complicated requirements.
The future of nurse staffing is on your mobile phone
You can spend long, thankless hours trying to get your staff to take on extra shifts or desperately searching for other nurses, contacting agencies who may not be able to respond in time.
Or, you can try a new, smart, modern solution.
Nursa offers flexible, scalable, timely, and trustworthy staffing without the hassle and frustration.
Sign up and take a sigh of relief.
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