Staffing

Staffing

Introduction

Organizations must formulate strategies in order to work effectively. Accordingly strategies are to be adopted for identifying ways to recruit and hire people and it is the responsibility of the chief nursing office to come up with relevant strategies. The following paper discusses a plan for recruiting and retaining potential staff.

Discussion

Strategy for recruiting nurses

The impact or the effect of the crisis of shortage of nurses, along with the issue of high acuity of patient, is a very important matter of concern for the administrative members of nay nursing team specially those members whore are specifically assigned to the task of balancing the patients needs with the staffing needs. The hospital nurse executives and management attribute the shortage or the scarcity to women having a number of increasing opportunities and chances outside the field of health care and also to insufficient reimbursement or compensation for that work which is already being done. But still, most of the administrative staff considers that the crises are much serious and it also involves in it a lot of hard work.

A number of recruitment initiatives could be adopted in order to help in reversing the existing trend. Some local initiatives can consist of presenting and offering few referral bonuses, hiring new and fresh graduate nurses, working in collaboration with the nursing schools as a primary and basic clinical site for rotations, establishing better residency programs in the hospital, targeting some males too for the field, having the best clinical nurses visit some of the high schools in order to increase the interest of students in the field of health care.

The internal initiatives involves paying the nurses premium rate for working more than their required full time, providing nurses with the annual bonuses, making sure about the availability of a large enough per diem pool of female and male nurses both in order to replace the agency use, by offering reimbursement of tuition fees and also by offering various scholarship programs for those nurses who have to return back to school for further studies, and by establishing lenient and flexible working hours.                         

Job Description

Job description to advertise a position for staff nurses to work 12-hour shifts in the acute care units.

Recruiter: Chief Nursing Officer

Posted: 26th January 2013

Sector: Healthcare

Hours: 12 hours shift

Salary: 18.0-25.0 GBP hourly

Further Information

Our hospital is currently looking for some freshly graduated nurses to work on regular 12 hours shifts. We are offering competitive pay rates. Moreover, we have a lot of work available that would suit your needs.

Job summary

Assesses the patients, plans and then implements care

Can provide expert advice and also maintains related records

Can carry out professional nursing procedures

Ability to provide clinical supervision

Qualifications and trainings

Relevant and required post registration courses must be completed through any registered school of higher Education (minimum of Level 3)

Experience

Must have completed a 6 months internship

Skills and abilities

Skills for interpreting and assessing specialist acute as well as conditions of other patient and must be able to take appropriate action at the right time. They:

Must also be able to advise ...