IT Partnerships in Patient Safety and Healthcare Staffing
Where will hospitals and healthcare facilities find qualified nurse practitioners?
A nurse practitioner enters the room. As the nurse practitioner greets the patient, he or she is immediately identified by ‘smart room’ technologies that confirm the nurse practitioner is an authorized caregiver. The nurse practitioner’s name appears on a flat screen for patients and family members to see and is prompted to wash his or her hands by a spotlight that points to the sink.
Smart room technologies and electronic health and medical records systems are being deployed by hospitals nationwide to curb medical errors, reduce mortality rates and altogether enhance patient safety and outcomes.
But what technologies are hospitals using to source and recruit savvy nurse practitioners? What healthcare management solutions to ensure a seamless transition in patient care when one nurse practitioner goes on leave and another takes over, or to eliminate countless phone hours finding last minute replacements for call outs and spikes in patient census?
More importantly, “How does a hospital find nurse practitioners knowledgeable of EMRs and EHRs, smart room technologies and informatics?”
Smart room technologies will only be as good as the “smart” nurses and doctors charged with entering and maintaining the patient data on which the accuracy of these systems rely, said Director of Product Development, Sue Higgins, for Candidate Direct.
“Finding the right candidate or nurse practitioner isn’t always a walk in the park, Higgins said, which is why we created the Candidate Direct Marketplace, so healthcare employers can build and manage their own contingent workforce of qualified nurses. This way, healthcare facilities have knowledgeable candidates lined up in advance and agencies ready to submit candidates in a pinch.”
Participating in the Candidate Direct Marketplace costs healthcare facilities nothing and can result in substantial savings over time, she said.
“The larger the pool of qualified candidates, the easier it will be to source nurse practitioners familiar with smart room concepts and who possess a general understanding of emerging patient care technologies,” Higgins said.
“The Marketplace is also proven to save hospitals thousands in healthcare staffing costs,” said the staffing professional, “and to help healthcare providers reach “out of the way” employment markets where qualified candidates can be sourced.”
The Candidate Direct Marketplace® provides a single place for healthcare organizations to source, recruit, procure and manage contingent and direct hire needs. Our blog provides readers with information about current trends and aims to stay in the forefront of technology and industry news. Please contact Candidate Direct for more information about our healthcare staffing software and technology.