According to Modern Healthcare, the number one thing nurses desire in an employer and work environment is a culture of life balance and safety (over higher pay!). When LeAnn Thieman delivers her powerful presentations at nursing recruitment events, an average of 30 percent of recruits sign on. Differentiate your hospital from the competition by providing potential nurses with Chicken Soup for their Souls from their first interaction!
If you’re struggling to recruit and retain new staff, it’s increasingly important to implement nursing recruitment strategies to improve the influx of caregivers. So many healthcare facilities are finding they simply can’t hire enough staff to keep up with demands. Instead, their current staff is often discouraged, burned out, and overworked, negatively affecting patient care and putting nurse retention at a shocking low.
10 Nurse Recruitment Strategies
- Create a culture of caring
- Offer scheduling flexibility
- Extend opportunities for advancement
- Gift them with self-care tools
- Demonstrate your recognition initiatives
- Provide training and continuing education
- Promote work-life balance
- Create optimistic positive workplaces
- Emphasize workplace safety
- Make them part of your mission; show how they make a difference.
Nurse Recruitment Events
Here are ten strategies you can implement to ensure that high-quality recruits are placing resumes in your hands:
Here at SelfCare for HealthCare, we address nurse recruitment and retention problems and customize solutions for our clients.
We provide resources, including our year-long SelfCare for HealthCare program and motivational speaking at recruitment and community events.
We can help you to become a premier facility that attracts and retains nurses. With SelfCare for HealthCare®, you can improve your environment, become knowledgeable about nurse recruitment, hire the right staff, keep quality caregivers, and increase patient and nurse satisfaction!