Phone Apps and Black Friday….retailers warming up.

This year most major retailers have started to warm to the notion that shoppers enter their brick and mortar sanctuaries with their smart phones in hand ready to cross-reference every conceivable retailer’s price. Prior to Black Friday of 2011, some retailers went as far as to ban cell phone use in their showrooms! The fear […]

VMS in Healthcare poised for a comeback

“As financial officers around the country try to make sense of the new staffing dynamic, the VMS will once again be front and center.”-Tim Teague, BlueSky MSS Tim Teague, President of BlueSky Medical Staffing Software, is blogging in conjuction with the Staffing Analysts at the Staffing Stream. “The Staffing Stream is a forum for the leading […]

Staffing Summit Take-aways

The recent healthcare staffing summit in Las Vegas provides interesting insight into the unique world of tempory labor in the healthcare sector. Co-incidentally, the day after the summit ended, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a “Re-do” of the numbers released on unemployment. Not surprisingly, the second set of numbers significantly increased the unemployment figures […]

Persistence in the Healthcare Staffing Industry

The recent surge in the national polls for Presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds me of times I have struggled in the staffing industry. After a previous failed bid for President, and consistently trailing in every poll nation-wide, the Romney campaign is now experiencing for the first time in over 4 years the feeling of being […]

Dialing for Dollars

According to the Labor Department, household spending on vehicles, apparel, entertainment, and eating out decreased between 2007 and 2011. Telephone services, largely fueled by the growth of “smart phones” and higher priced data plans have increased during the same period by over 10%.

The election is near. Is your staffing firm ready?

As the November election draws near, the political pundits across the country do their best to project alternate futures based on their respective party platforms. 

More Recent Data on the Nursing Shortage

I was reminded after my recent blog quoting Dr. Peter Buerhaus of Vanderbilt University, that he has written two more articles concerning the shortage. Findings show a 62 percent increase in the number of 23- to 26-year-olds who became registered nurses between 2002 and 2009, a growth rate not seen in this age group since […]

Fact or Fiction: There is a Nursing Shortage

In the July/August 2009 Health Affairs, Dr. Peter Buerhaus and coauthors found that despite the current easing of the nursing shortage due to the recession, the U.S. nursing shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 registered nurses by 2025.  A shortage of this magnitude would be twice as large as any nursing shortage experienced in this […]

Using Healthcare Staffing Software to Keep Your Overhead Low

Many of the onerous regulatory concerns of employers are triggered when certain FTE thresholds are met. The ObamaCare legislation for employers is triggered by one set of FTE rules, but execution of penalties or (taxes) is dependent on another set of FTE calculations. It is not unusual in heavily regulated industries to attempt to remain […]