Nurse Recruitment Events

Find Top Talent For Your Healthcare organization

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.

 

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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:

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1. Create a Culture of Caring

While wages are top of mind in hiring healthcare givers today, money is not the only, nor the major, factor. Nurses are seeking employment where there is a collaborative culture of caring, not only for patients but for staff.

2. Offer Scheduling Flexibility 

Nurses and all healthcare givers are required to work long shifts and sometimes odd hours. The acuity of care is greater than ever before, which demands constant hard work and concentration. It can be taxing to work these shifts week after week. Providing flexible scheduling and time off attracts new staff.

3. Extend Opportunities for Advancement

Even new hires are looking for career growth. To support nurses on their professional journeys, establish programs that promote learning and leadership development. These not only impact nurses’ abilities to care for patients but help them become leaders and decision-makers in the future of healthcare. Plus, these programs will likely increase nurse retention rates.

4. Gift Them With Self-Care Tools

It’s one thing to say, “Take good care of yourself,” and another to offer a comprehensive, fun, evidence-based program giving them tools to care for themselves as attentively as they do their patients. That’s what SelfCare for HealthCare is all about!

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5. Demonstrate Your Recognition Initiatives

Nurses and caregivers of every age relish appreciation, praise, and recognition for their good work and efforts. Share with them your programs and events that offer support, where they have a voice and are engaged in decision-making processes.

6. Provide Training and Continuing Education

Nurse residency programs advance nurses’ training and patient care. These provide new nurses with support while engaging experienced nurses as preceptors, creating a collaborative culture. Offering continuing education, scholarship programs, on-site seminars, or other resources for free access to education and growth are key to attracting new hires.

7. Promote Work-Life Balance

The “younger” generations not only desire but demand work-life balance. Offering flexible scheduling, regular breaks, and time off that is truly time off are life balance strategies they are expecting. Our SelfCare for HealthCare® program proves your commitment to life balance!

8. Create Optimistic Positive Workplaces

A nourishing, collaborative, and passionate staff of nurses and caregivers shows your dedication to your employees. Nurture a positive work environment, and you’ll find others are intrigued and eager to join your workforce.

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9. Emphasize Workplace Safety

On-the-job injuries and workplace violence are concerning to many prospects. Reassure them by implementing programs for injury prevention and processes to avoid harm.

10. Make Them Part of Your Mission; Show How They Make a Difference

Healthcare workers entered the profession to make a difference, not only in the lives of patients and families but in the world. Review your mission and vision statements with them and welcome them to join your efforts in making your institution and the world a better place.

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!

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