Healthcare leaders should consider these five elements when integrating nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) on a multi-disciplinary team.In working with academic and organizational healthcare leaders nationwide, we have had many discussions on the topic of team building.

Managing employee attendance and time sheets is one of the biggest challenges for healthcare companies and in the current remote scenario. Employees are an essential part of healthcare organizations, but at the same time can cost a fortune if their timesheets are not properly managed.

One way organizations prioritize their employees is to create intentional and informed recruitment and retention strategies. Organizations also benefit financially from these strategies.Organizations and all employers of APRNs and PAs (called Advanced Practice Providers - APPs) make decisions annually to provide a salary increase.

A CNS, CRNA, NP, and PA labor shortage can be anticipated for late 2021 and 2022. We have seen the largest jump in recognition of the value of Advanced Practice Providers due to the roles they filled during COVID surges. Hospital Human Resource, Talent, and Recruitment will find this difficult to believe, but the excess of healthcare providers, especially CNS, CRNAs, NPs, and PAs, is going to disappear.

At DirectShifts we work with hundreds of Advanced Practice Provider (APP) leads and physicians to add Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) who are collectively referred to as Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) to build their teams. Through these interactions, we have found 3 keys to success when building an APP service or practice. When hiring managers decide to start an APP service, it helps to start by writing a description of the job as part of building a business case.

The seamless management of all clinical staff consists of three critical components (i) timely tracking, (ii) quick processing, and (iii) accurate approval of timesheets. Timesheet challenges affect organizations of all sizes the large health systems, their administrators and startups or private healthcare partners.