A recent article in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, addressed the hand-in-glove fit for nurses to be the next sector added to the GIG economy. They said: “The traditional healthcare staffing model isn’t working. It’s inefficient and expensive for facilities, burning out nurses by strong-arming them into overworking, and putting patients at risk. When a facility that uses the traditional staffing model needs to fill a gap in their schedule, it results in a time-consuming game of phone tag between facilities, agencies and their agency staff.
If agencies can’t fill the shifts that facilities need, facility administrators and schedulers have two options – ask their own nursing staff to work overtime, or leave the gap in their schedule unfilled and risk staffing penalties. At the end of the day, facilities want to fill their shifts and nurses want to provide the best care possible, while also achieving a healthy work-life balance. However, with the traditional staffing model, neither can do that. There is overwhelming evidence that shows short-staffed, burned-out nurses negatively impacts patient care.”
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