Integrate career pathways in some of healthcare’s hardest-to-fill support roles through Healthcare Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs). If your organization struggles with recruitment or retention, integrating this open-source model into your facility, for free, should be a top priority. Right now, the first 20 Early Adopters of the IRAPs will be eligible for up to $10,000 in support per location as we launch the programs nationwide. These funds can be used at your discretion to administer, incentivize, integrate or promote the program to hire and/or grow the careers of candidates for your hard-to-fill roles.

Hospitals and health systems added 10,800 jobs in October, while U.S. jobs overall increased by 261,000, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Health systems are doubling down on their efforts to keep current employees while attracting an increasing number of new staff as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Becker's Hospital Review
When Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN, became Cleveland Clinic's first chief caregiver officer in June 2020, she was tasked with leading strategic development and implementation of employee engagement during the thick of the pandemic. 

HealthLeaders Media
While the industry has endured shortages on and off for decades in key clinical positions, such as nurses and physicians, broader shortages spurred by the pandemic, inflation, and other economic forces have magnified the challenges in recent years.

Organizations can take a number of steps to reduce the negative impact EHRs have on their physicians and improve satisfaction. KLAS Research’ s Arch Collaborative provides tips for successful EHR training and support.

Chief Executive
Whether they’re called employee resource groups (ERGs), business resource groups, passion groups or affinity groups, there’s a post-pandemic boom in the formation of internal nodes that companies are putting together to help their workers find close-level identity and support within the corporate structure that has nothing to do with reporting relationships.

Healthcare Finance
To ease burnout, the surgeon general advises hospitals to listen to staff and seek their involvement to improve organizational culture.

Healthcare Dive
Half of nurses have considered leaving the nursing profession, according to recent polls by staffing agency ConnectRN. Staffing shortages were the top reason nurses cited for planning to leave their jobs, followed by needing better work-life balance.

HR Dive
Learning and development pros must be able to communicate their budget needs and should come with data to support those requests, sources say.

Researchers at College Station-based Texas A&M University are monitoring nurses' eye movements with special glasses. They hope the results will point to causes of stress and burnout.