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Use a “personal approach”. (This approach can be used with any role that is hard to fill, competitive and critical you your business success.) Filling RN roles has two major components: 1. Recruit, recruit, recruit – meaning, get the word out about how great your hospital or facility is, what great care you deliver, and what great careers nurses have with you. 2. Fast track hiring – in a competitive…

Highly effective human resources is based on connecting our people through meaningful programs to the mission and purpose of the organization. Too often, we pay lots of attention to transactional efficiency and lose sight of strategic contribution and business value. However, with a little bit of planning and effort, HR can be optimized. The path to follow is simple, yet simple does not mean easy. Optimization can be a significant…

A Turnover Report is a Power Tool and can be invaluable in helping you with long-, medium-, and short-term goals and planning.  It helps you strategically and tactically. Go after dollars – the cost of turnover is often overlooked. Go here for a sample Turnover Report. Turnover Reports are Power Tools.  If you don’t routinely get and use this report, you may be missing out on great insights about your…

What about the costs of turnover?  You may be amazed at the numbers. I have seen many organizations agonize over a $10,000 dollar decision – and ignore one or two percentage points on turnover, which may be worth $100,000 or more.  The costs of turnover are frequently hidden, not easily seen or understood, not easily reported, and so they get overlooked – nevertheless, it is a very real cost and…