Hospitals Seek Partnerships to Mitigate Nursing Shortage

Hospitals Seek Partnerships to Mitigate Nursing Shortage

Hospitals are establishing new career education programs in areas where the nursing shortage has threatened their facility’s staffing capabilities.

“To grow the prospective hiring pool, hospitals are implementing partnerships with local colleges to provide hands-on training to nursing students and creating internal pools to fill temporary vacancies without using contract labor, which can be very expensive.”