It has become an increasingly popular option for healthcare organizations to employ temporary staff to maintain staffing levels and quality of care to their patients while controlling costs.
With its numerous benefits for healthcare facilities, temporary staffing is considered as a valuable staffing solution that can make your institution stay well ahead of the curve.
In this blog, we’ll gain some insights on how temporary staffing can help your healthcare facility ensure organizational success by addressing common pain points. Let’s dive in.
What is Temporary Staffing?
Temporary staffing in healthcare refers to the practice of hiring temporary nurses or other healthcare staff on a short-term basis to fill staffing gaps or meet increased demand for services.
Nurses and healthcare professionals are engaged only for a specific period of time, which includes fixed-term, project- or task-based contracts, as well as seasonal or casual work, including day labour.1
Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the common challenges that healthcare organizations face in relation to personnel.
Common Pain Points
- Staffing shortages
- Increasing costs
- Compliance and regulation
- Patient experience and outcomes
- Technology adoption
While these significantly impact your healthcare facility’s ability to provide quality care and achieve organizational success, considering temporary staffing as a strategic solution can help you overcome these common pain points.
Filling the Gaps: Resolving Staffing Shortages
One of the most critical challenges facing healthcare executives is the shortage of qualified healthcare professionals, especially nurses, which can lead to staffing gaps and negatively impact patient care.
Due to an inadequate number of potential educators, a high turnover rate, and an uneven distribution of the workforce, the nursing profession is still grappling with shortages.2
Temporary staffing agencies, like RIGHT ACCORD Health Staffing and Placement Services, have a pool of highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who can provide immediate support to healthcare facilities facing staffing shortages. These professionals can include registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, and other healthcare staff members.
We can help your institution through:
- Immediate staffing: When a healthcare facility is experiencing a sudden staffing shortage, a temporary staffing agency can quickly provide qualified professionals to fill the gap, ensuring continuity of care and preventing potential delays or disruptions.
- Flexible staffing: Temporary staffing can provide healthcare facilities with the flexibility to adjust their staffing levels based on patient demand or seasonal fluctuations. This flexibility can help reduce costs and improve patient outcomes.
- Reduced recruitment time and costs: Temporary staffing agencies handle the recruitment and hiring process, which can save healthcare facilities time and resources associated with traditional recruitment efforts.
- Quality of care: Temporary staffing agencies provide highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who can ensure the delivery of quality care to patients.
- Reduced administrative burden: Temporary staffing agencies handle many administrative tasks associated with hiring and managing staff, such as screening, background checks, payroll, and scheduling, which can save healthcare facilities time and resources.
Decreasing Costs
We understand that healthcare organizations must balance providing quality care with managing costs, which can be challenging given the rising costs of healthcare, including labor costs, medical supplies, and technology.
Temporary staffing can also help your healthcare facility reduce costs in several ways:
Cost-effective staffing
Healthcare facilities can save money by avoiding the costs associated with recruiting, training, and onboarding new employees.
Reduced overtime costs
During staffing shortages, your team may need to rely on overtime to fill the gaps, which can be expensive. By using temporary staffing, you can avoid these costs and still provide quality care.
Flexibility
Healthcare executives can adjust staffing levels to match patient demand and avoid overstaffing, which can be costly.
Improved patient outcomes
Temporary staffing agencies provide highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who can improve patient outcomes, leading to fewer hospital readmissions, complications, and costly interventions.
Reduced liability and insurance costs
The agency assumes liability for the temporary staff, reducing the risk to your institution.
Access to specialized talent
RIGHT ACCORD Health Staffing and Placement Services can provide access to specialized talent, such as travel nurses or clinicians with specific expertise. This can help you save money in the long run by avoiding the need to hire full-time staff with specialized skills.
Compliant and Well-regulated
We know that healthcare is a heavily regulated industry, and you must ensure compliance with various laws, regulations, and industry standards, which can be time-consuming and costly.
Temporary staffing can help with your compliance and regulation challenges in these ways:
- Compliance with healthcare regulations
- Adherence to safety protocols
- Assistance with regulatory compliance
- Access to experienced professionals
- Reduced administrative burden
Partner up with a reputable temporary staffing agency to ensure that your healthcare facility is compliant and not at risk. RIGHT ACCORD Health Staffing and Placement Services can help you reduce the risk of penalties, safety breaches and regulatory violations, as well as, in hiring, screening, background checks and credentialing your temporary staff.
Maintain Quality Patient Care
One study found that staffing of RNs below target levels was associated with increased patient mortality, which reinforces the need to match staffing with patients’ needs for nursing care.3
Healthcare facilities are responsible for ensuring a positive patient experience and improving patient outcomes, which can be difficult in the face of staffing shortages, resource constraints, and complex medical conditions.
Temporary staffing can play a significant role in improving patient experience and outcomes by providing your healthcare facility with access to highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who can deliver high-quality care.
Here are some ways that temporary staffing can help:
- Continuity of care: RIGHT ACCORD Health Staffing and Placement Services can provide you with healthcare professionals who can maintain continuity of care when regular staff members are unavailable. This can help improve patient experience and outcomes by ensuring consistent care and reducing the risk of complications or readmissions.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction: Temporary staffing can help maintain adequate staffing levels, reduce wait times and improve patient satisfaction. When patients have a positive experience, they are more likely to have better outcomes and outcomes.
- Improved quality of care: We provide highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who can help improve the quality of care delivered to patients. These professionals can bring fresh perspectives, specialized knowledge, and up-to-date techniques to your team, leading to improved outcomes for patients.
- Reduced staff burnout: When your facility experience staffing shortages, regular staff members may be required to work longer hours, leading to burnout and lower job satisfaction. Temporary staffing can help alleviate this burden, giving regular staff members the time and support they need to provide high-quality care and improve patient outcomes.
- Flexibility: Temporary staffing helps adjust staffing levels to match patient demand. This can help your facility avoid overstaffing, leading to reduced costs and better patient outcomes.
Technology adoption
Healthcare is rapidly evolving, and healthcare executives like you must keep up with emerging technologies and trends, such as telemedicine, electronic health records, and artificial intelligence, to provide the best care possible.
Temporary staffing can help you with technology adoption in several ways:
- Access to specialized expertise
- Reduced training costs
- Increased efficiency
- Improved data management
- Cost savings
Conclusion
Temporary Staffing can get you ahead of the curve and ensure your healthcare facility’s success by overcoming the common pain points you commonly encounter.
Teaming up with RIGHT ACCORD Healthstaffing and Placement Services will guarantee that you will be provided with the best healthcare professionals in the quickest turn-around time so you can focus on what you do best – delivering quality care to your patients.
Visit our website or talk to our consultant to request staffing today.
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About the Author
Rosemarie Tamunday Casanova, RN, BSN, MHA – CEO
I have been a nurse for over three decades and have worked in various settings, including long-term care facilities, teaching hospitals, and trauma centers. Over the years, I have held several critical care positions and even earned a master’s degree in Health Administration. My journey in entrepreneurship began in 2000 when I co-founded a staffing and recruitment agency with my partner, Health and Technology Professionals.
After relocating to Florida, I established my own Home Care Agency and have been operating it successfully for over a decade. Despite our success, I have always been aware of the ongoing need for registered nurses in the US. This led us to reignite our recruitment services and assist international registered nurses in finding employment in the US.
