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On-Ramp to a Good Job: A healthcare system's earn-and-learn experiment seeks to guide frontline workers to nursing careers. Intermountain Health’s experiment to recruit workers for frontline roles and then guide them along a clear, stackable path to becoming nurses. Also, a look at how Washington State is doubling down on free community college and work-based learning to boost homegrown talent. https://lnkd.in/gsR2F-QE

Since 2019, RN employment in Michigan decreased by one percent. But, more critically, RN employment in hospitals declined by three percent. What is causing nurses to seek other opportunities outside hospitals? Learn more below. #MHCinsight #futureofnursing

The solution may need to be drastic. We need to reward 1. Hours in a week 2. Years of experience in nursing 3. Years in the same place and unit with the same patients Direct payment from some nursing controlled entity at the state level would be needed Nurses would be free to go to any hospital that supports them Nurses would be free to depart hospitals that do not support them Adequate notice would need to be supplied by nurses or hospitals for the end of employment Employers not supportive suffer Patients are moved to hospitals that have supportive employers that can get and keep nurses In areas such as primary care - all of the trainees need to be signed up MD DO NP and PA and a central entity would review and approve their environment and work contracts. Hours, experience, and continuity in specialty, practice, patients, and team members would be rewarded. You cannot trust any design to do this - fee for service, value based, etc. SHOW ME THE MONEY and the environment and conditions - TRANSPARENCY and accountability We desperately need more and better delivery team members across health care. This is best for efficient and effective practice with everyone working to their fullest capacity. We have to stop the abuses and reverse the move to toxic health care delivery environments. Everything about the way we finance hospitals and basic health access is wrong for delivery team members. DRG to value based designs are all about cost cutting designs. We are competent in this. Designers are not. This started in the 1980s when big health draining the treasury got out of control - and the managed care, micromanagement, and cost cutting designers took over control. We can have designers that are competent in health care or at least listen. This is not the case. And were 500 hospitals have been closed - the voices of those most abused have effectively been silenced. In their positions as hospital administrators, nurses, social workers, pharmacists or others delivering care, they also were locally focused health care leadership. The closures of their hospitals by the hundreds and even greater practice compromises have resulted in a worsening of awareness of the declining situations for health care across most of the US population. For nearly 40 years those such as myself have been leading locally and protesting at a number of levels - and we lost the practices, people, patients, and communities where we belonged. This is an accelerating cycle of decline across awareness, information, health access, and local organization for health care. Leaders must avoid designing an accelerating cycle of decline - but they continue to do so in health care, education, housing, government jobs, and social supports.

more nurses should get involved

Everyone talks about the "nursing shortage". This is a narrative hospitals and systems are pushing to divert blame. There are plenty of nurses out there but they don't want to put their license, credibility, and patients lives at risk. "According to a January 2023 survey conducted by the Michigan Nurses Association, 42% of polled nurses know of a patient death they attribute to unsafe staffing levels within hospitals. That number was 22% in 2016." Can you imagine knowing you could have saved someone's life but were unable? Many cannot as they've never been faced with this. Training more nurses to go into the "meat grinder" is not the solution. Fix the core problem and you fix the staffing crisis. #healthcare #nursing #nurses #staffing #hospitals #business #hr

This was a thought provoking episode of the #amplifiedRN news show with Jared Fesler. We definitely need a multi-pronged approach to addressing our current nursing pipeline challenges. Discussing these hurdles generates awareness, and allows us to find creative solutions that will address both the local and national healthcare landscape. One idea in motion: In September of last year “U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced bipartisan legislation to address the pay gap between clinical and faculty nursing positions—which is the primary economic disincentive fueling the nursing shortage crisis across the country. The Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act is a bipartisan bill that would provide a federal wage differential for the salary gap between clinical nursing and nurse faculty roles—to help fill desperately needed nurse faculty positions across the country. This program would operate alongside the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) existing Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment Program (NFLP), to address a given nursing school or program’s needs.” (https://lnkd.in/gxp5G2yp) #nurseadvocate #creativesolutions #sittingatthetable with American Nurses Association - California 💪🏼

📝 CASE STUDY 📝 The islands of Hawaii don’t always have enough Registered and Certified Nurses to fill local medical facilities, so facilities work with recruiters to meet those demands, creating a competitive field of recruiting firms. Our client was one of them, providing travel nurse recruiting services, securing contracts from RNs and CNs from mainland US on short/long term contracts at medical facilities in Hawaii. Our client had 8 such nursing contracts that they needed to sell to a medical facility in Hawaii with the clock ticking on the pre-determined start date. We found a hospital that needed 12 nursing roles filled. 8 would do for now, but they were ready to secure 4 more in advance. Our client was thrilled, if not overwhelmed in fulfilling the additional contracts, and the hospital had their nursing shortage solved. Selling is solving and solving is storytelling. Read the case study here: https://lnkd.in/gfScazd4 #B2B #storytelling #marketing #recruiting #sales

The evidence is clear - there is no nursing shortage - but a shortage of nurses willing to work in healthcare environments as they are today, due to hospitals unsafely staffing nurses that make it too unsafe for nurses to practice. This all arises from nurses being the only healthcare professional that is a cost to healthcare systems. Nurses are the only degreed healthcare professional to not have a billable service, which makes nurses costs to healthcare systems. As such, hospitals always staff nurses to the lowest cost denominator. As long as the current reimbursement model stays in place - we will never solve this problem. We must change the reimbursement model. This is why we launched #TheCommissionForNurseReimbursement to change this failed 100 year old model that failed from the start and is threatening all healthcare delivery today. Join us: https://lnkd.in/er7AyUGB Great share @NathanBarr - finally the right data and narrative being reported in the media. Thank you MLive.com for getting the facts right. We are going to change this! Sharon Pearce Shannon Lunn, RN Melissa Mills Olga Yakusheva Robert Longyear Garrett Gleeson John Welton, PhD, RN Matthew McHugh, PhD, JD, MPH, RN PK Scheerle, RN Paul Coyne Brian Weirich Ajay Kumar Gupta Stephen Day Brian Maucere Jalil A. Johnson PhD, NP, FIEL @amyrosetaylor

Insightful perspective on the nursing crisis.

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