Arizona is currently experiencing a crisis in the healthcare sector. RNs (registered nurses), LPNs (licensed practical nurses), and CNAs (certified nursing assistants) are in short supply in the hospital and healthcare sector, affecting healthcare facilities throughout the region.
Healthcare executives and schedulers alike are concerned about the nursing shortage. Nurse staffing puts significant pressure on a facility's bottom line to ensure safe nurse staffing ratios. Facilities need adaptable staffing solutions that can meet fluctuating needs.
Nursa's PRN staffing is the best solution for your Peoria, Arizona, hospital or healthcare facility. Keep reading to learn why.
Hospitals in Peoria Saving Money through Nursa
Although the state has more than 165,000 registered and practical nurses combined, Arizona's nurse shortage is one of the worst in the country. Experts anticipate a shortfall of 30,000 by 2025. This has left hospitals and healthcare facilities in Peoria competing for talent from an insufficient supply.
Arizona's nurse shortage can be attributed to multiple factors colliding and compounding upon each other:
- Nurse burnout from stress at work and feeling overworked
- Nurse turnover (often due to burnout)
- Nurse retirements (baby boomer generation of nurses taking years of experience with them)
- Nursing program faculty vacancies and lack of clinical placements (difficult to grow class sizes to meet demand)
- Increased demand for specialized nursing care due to aging baby boomer generation
- A popular retirement destination (increased demand for nursing services)
Find Nurses in Peoria
The best way to fill the gaps in the schedules that Peoria healthcare facilities and hospitals have and save money at the same time is by using Nursa to source PRN nursing clinicians. Nursa offers flexible staffing solutions to meet your facility’s needs.
PRN stands for pro re nata; in this context, it refers to on-demand nurses, nursing assistants, and caregivers (CGs) who work when facilities have the need, whether it is due to understaffing, a surge of patients, etc.
The main advantages of hiring PRN nurses are:
- Save money. Other staffing solutions, such as travel nurses and nurse staffing companies, are expensive and unsustainable. Alternatively, PRN clinicians are contracted shift by shift and only paid an hourly rate—no employee benefits.
- Improve patient safety and job security. By having enough well-rested and properly trained staff, the hospital can maintain or improve its quality of patient care and improve the working conditions of all its staff.
- Save time. Recruitment requires time and energy. Save your staff valuable time on staffing tasks that could be made easier and faster with Nursa.
- Access a larger pool of nursing talent. Nursa allows healthcare facilities in Peoria to take advantage of their proximity to Phoenix. RNs, LPNs, CNAs, and CGs search for available shifts near them. This means that facilities have access to a wider talent pool—clinicians from surrounding areas.
- Adapt to changing needs. Use Nursa only when you need it. This allows facilities to adapt their staffing levels with changing needs.
Solve Acute and Post-Acute Staffing Needs
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.
Find Local PRN RNs, LPNs, and CNAs with Nursa
Arizona healthcare facilities use Nursa to find PRN nurses and nursing assistants. It is easy to use and directly connects to local nursing clinicians looking for PRN shifts with hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Nursa takes care of license verification and background checks, leaving your facility scheduler with the responsibility of choosing their preferred candidate for shifts. Start addressing your nurse staffing problem today by posting PRN shifts with Nursa.
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