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Solutions in staffing
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At Diligent™, we create positive cultural change by making nursing safer and improving staff morale so that our clients can attract and keep the best nursing personnel available to meet their patient needs.
Staffing shortages are undoubtedly a major problem for healthcare providers today. Unfortunately, the industry is faced with a nursing shortage that threatens to last for the next twenty years.
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| Growing Trends |
- There are 21,000 fewer nursing students today than in 1995
- The average age of an American nurse is 43, increasing at a rate more than twice as fast as other work forces
- By 2010, the average age of an American nurse will be 50
- 56% of hospitals use agencies or traveling nurses
- Hospitals have 126,000 unfilled nursing positions, expected to grow to 400,000 by 2020
- Hospitals with higher turnover rates have longer patient stays and higher death rates
“Nursing Shortage Hits Patients”, Chicago Sun Times. August 7, 2002. |
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Diligent™ provides solutions in staffing from every perspective. Our comprehensive, hands-on injury prevention programs:
- Improve staff morale and decrease turnover by reducing physical stress and fatigue
- Facilitate staffing by reducing transfer related injuries, thereby reducing the need for overtime and replacement personnel
- Permit the aging worker to continue to do their job with a minimum of stress
- Allow injured nurses to return to work and function in their full capacity with reduced lifting loads
- Assist with recruiting efforts
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Turnover is Expensive. It costs approximately 100 percent of a nurse’s salary to fill a vacant position. Assuming a turnover rate of 20%, which is the current average turnover of healthcare workers, a hospital employing 600 nurses at $46,000 per nurse per year will spend $5,520,000 a year in replacement costs.
Kosel, Keith C., Olivo, Tom,
"The business case for workforce stability," VHA, April 2002.
Recent study shows 41 percent of the nurses currently working reported being dissatisfied with their jobs; 43 percent scored high in a range of burn out measures; and 22 percent were planning to leave their jobs in the next year.
Aiken, L.A.Clarke, S.P. Sloan, D.M., et al,
"Nurses reports of hospital quality of care and working conditions in five counties", Health Affairs, 20 (3): 43-53, 2001.
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