The long-predicted wave of retirements among Baby-Boomer nurses is already underway, new data suggests from the AMN Healthcare 2017 Survey of Registered Nurses. This news intensifies the growing crisis of healthcare workforce shortages, forewarned by recent projections from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics that there will be more than 600,000 job openings per year for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations over the next decade.…
Any year that an industry adds 300,000 jobs is a good year. Many thought the healthcare industry might not have a happy 2017, with the incoming presidential administration promising a sweeping change to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through repeal and replacement with an undefined new policy. Throughout the year, an inconclusive debate raged over healthcare policy. While the ACA remains in effect, some changes were made that weaken it.…
A recent study from KPMG illustrates the fact that using Travel Nurses can provide a cost savings to hospitals throughout the United States. …
NATHO will be at the 2017 Healthcare Staffing Summit in Dallas, and we have a couple of great events scheduled for members, including a reception and tax whitepaper luncheon! …