Optimizing Staff Utilization: Effective Scheduling and Deployment of Internal Resources

When onboarding a locums clinician, you'll want training to be effective in a short period of time. Locums providers won't need to know everything about your worksite. However, introducing them to your team and procedures is crucial. A thoughtful welcome will help your permanent team and patients, along with your new hire.

As one of the earliest pandemic hot spots in the country, NYC hospitals had to find ways to reduce fixed costs while managing historic levels of demand. In these unprecedented times for healthcare, one response is surprisingly normal. Hospitals are responding to COVID-19 like any other employer.

Friends of DirectShifts, Now more than ever, we are proud to reiterate our commitment to diversity and meaningful equity. We're doing our best to combat systems of oppression in our daily lives and via our employment opportunities. We take care to seek out providers and employers in underrepresented communities across the nation.

In the first part of this series, we described how to view your healthcare workforce as an investment towards outcomes instead of as a cost center. Focusing on dimensions like staffing flexibility, skill mix, staff preparedness, holistic administrative support and backfill strategy is our idea of smart workforce planning.

Rural hospitals and locum tenens (contract) physicians are a perfect match. These hardworking facilities and doctors have qualities that bring out the best each other has to offer.