In order to achieve a flexible nursing workforce ecosystem that is operational, efficient, and consistently meeting staffing needs, healthcare facilities must find better ways to engage their existing workforce. Without flexible workforce programs, healthcare systems struggled through the COVID crisis to compete with the pay rates and flexibility offered by travel programs, increasing clinician turnover, and causing contract labor fees to skyrocket.
With an internal travel program, hospitals can give nurses the ability to gain schedule flexibility, while learning new skills and experiences from working across multiple departments, hospitals and even geographies. In addition to providing the flexibility and autonomy nurses desire, internal travel programs offer more competitive wages to nurses leading to a more engaged workforce, higher retention rates and the ability to reduce costly contract labor expenses.
Historically, hospitals have struggled to execute on these kinds of flexible workforce programs because they lack the systems capable of managing the complexity and operational nuances of an internal travel program. Learn how hospitals can gain the ability to create and self-manage innovative programs that will engage their nurses and provide ultimate operational flexibility at a lower cost.