Travel Nursing (Part 1): The Contract Cost Conundrum

Especially now, traveling medical professionals provide a critical part of the healthcare we receive today. Why is it that there are so many traveling nurses though? It seems like there would be a middle-ground to find a local professional and mitigate the costs associated with bringing one in from out-of-state. Travel nursing contracts have associated […]
Travel Nursing (Part 2): The Concept of Efficiency

In a prior post, we discussed the phenomena of nurses swapping cities simultaneously to work for 13 weeks, then returning to their respective cities. It doesn’t occur to the requesting healthcare facilities, the source of all job orders, that at the same time they are pulling travel nurses from other parts of the country, hospitals […]
Staffing Industry Giants Hit the Courts (Again): AMN and AYA Case

Aya Healthcare Statement Regarding AMN’s Practices and Recent Court Ruling SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Aya Healthcare has been successful in preventing AMN Healthcare from using unlawful contractual restraints to limit employee mobility in the travel nurse industry. AMN originally sued Aya and our employees in an attempt to prevent AMN employees from joining Aya. AMN’s […]
Why travel nurses are on the rise and how a VMS can help

An Agency Standpoint on the Front Lines of COVID-19

This Gilbert staffing agency gets nurses and doctors to the front lines of the COVID-19 battle. In a typical week at AB Staffing Solutions, the Gilbert firm that places travel nurses and physicians in clinics and hospitals across the country, the company would find temporary professional homes for an average of 250 nurses and 90 […]
Nurse Staffing: Why today is different than in the “Great Recession”

What’s the current status of nurse staffing? IT’S A CENSUS YEAR FOR THE US. As hospitals stretch to meet the growing demand for census requirements, it is instructive to take a long-term view of the impact on the healthcare-staffing segment of the industry. History is usually helpful in predictive analysis. An example of this is […]
Achieve and Maintain Financial Wellness as Healthcare Professionals

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Healthcare Temp Labor Software Company, Debuts New Pay Package Calculator for Recruiters Amidst COVID19 Medical Staffing Boom

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlueSky Medical Staffing Software’s newest product, RapidHireTool.com, a Pay Package Calculator for Recruiters, has debuted this week in limited markets amidst one of the most challenging periods for the healthcare industry.