Nursing jobs are three times more likely to include a signing bonus than other professions, according to Indeed. These financial incentives are designed to draw attention, make job ads stand out, and entice...
CMS imposes hiring freeze, warns of nursing home survey reductions without budget increase
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Nov 13, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instituted a partial hiring freeze in July, and a top official said state survey agencies could take a hit if Congress can’t reach a federal budget deal.
5 unlikely recruitment ideas
By
Denise Boudreau
Jul 19, 2023
The struggle to attract qualified employees seems never-ending lately, and the impact on both the bottom line and your organization’s desired outcomes is significant. The financial strain is evident,...
Long-term care’s advantage can be a real difference maker
By
John O'Connor
Apr 01, 2023
Ask why long-term care employees do what they do and you’ll almost always hear it’s to make a difference.
Finally, a pod-based staffing solution
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 26, 2023
Finding warm-ish, semi-qualified bodies is just part of the long-term care staffing challenge. Without being psychic or subjecting each applicant to a full, military-grade psychological evaluation, how...
How to do it… Finding and keeping infection preventionists
By
John Hall
Jan 20, 2023
With the critical shortages in the nursing home workforce today, there may not be a more important hire than the now-mandatory infection preventionist.
Three ways to make a new hire’s day two count
By
Cara Silletto
Mar 03, 2022
Today, there are more open positions than applicants, which means we have to make those first several days better for new hires. Chances are they still have a few more options waiting if the first week...
Employee exits don’t necessarily mean a permanent goodbye
By
Nancy Anderson, RN, MA
Jul 08, 2021
I was a boomerang employee. Boomerang employees are people who leave an organization for personal or professional reasons and then come back to their former company as a re-hire. Just to be clear,...
Good practices keep out ‘bad actors’
By
Kevin Neudecker
Nov 10, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, long-term care facilities must keep the ill and elderly safe even as their resources are stretched and staff turnover increases. With each new hire, there is a chance...
For long-term care operators, every day is Labor Day
By
John O'Connor
Sep 04, 2018
Hope you had a nice Labor Day. For most of the country, it comes around once a year. But if you are leading a long-term care organization, it’s pretty much an everyday event.