Good Morning, As you know with our current staffing situation from when you were first hired in week one discussion, we
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:19 am
Good Morning,
As you know with our current staffing situation from when you were first hired in week one discussion, we have been having an acute and unusually high turnover, especially, among registered nurses and doctors. As of today, we have 200 nursing positions, 25 MD positions, and 75 various medical and other staffing positions open. We are losing employees faster than we can hire, train and retain them.
Today, however, I want to focus on our nurses and doctors. Currently, we have 400 nurses, 300 doctors, and the turnover rate is 50% and 25% respectively. In order to staff appropriately, I wanted to mandate that all existing RNs and MDs work one extra shift per week. I also wanted to utilize 100 contract nurses and 50 doctors from a teaching university.
I do have some concerns about the current state. First, mandating overtime shifts is costly, and we might be impairing morale and creating patient safety problems from overworking our current RNs. Second, the high number of contract RNs is expensive (even more than the mandatory overtime!) and, historically, contract staff is less engaged than employed staff. Third, the doctors may be new doctors that may lack the experience needed that the company needs.
Your charge is to create a recruitment/retention plan for RNs and MDs to help us address the 200 RNs and 75 MDs gap before the flu season hits this fall.
As you know with our current staffing situation from when you were first hired in week one discussion, we have been having an acute and unusually high turnover, especially, among registered nurses and doctors. As of today, we have 200 nursing positions, 25 MD positions, and 75 various medical and other staffing positions open. We are losing employees faster than we can hire, train and retain them.
Today, however, I want to focus on our nurses and doctors. Currently, we have 400 nurses, 300 doctors, and the turnover rate is 50% and 25% respectively. In order to staff appropriately, I wanted to mandate that all existing RNs and MDs work one extra shift per week. I also wanted to utilize 100 contract nurses and 50 doctors from a teaching university.
I do have some concerns about the current state. First, mandating overtime shifts is costly, and we might be impairing morale and creating patient safety problems from overworking our current RNs. Second, the high number of contract RNs is expensive (even more than the mandatory overtime!) and, historically, contract staff is less engaged than employed staff. Third, the doctors may be new doctors that may lack the experience needed that the company needs.
Your charge is to create a recruitment/retention plan for RNs and MDs to help us address the 200 RNs and 75 MDs gap before the flu season hits this fall.