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How to Search for a Job When You Already Have One
If you are tired of your current job, don’t worry. There are numerous employment opportunities for healthcare professionals at this time. Consider that for January 2016: The unemployment rate was 4.9% Healthcare added 37,000 jobs One thing stands in the […]
Read moreNational Doctors’ Day – Honoring Our Physicians
The first Doctors’ Day observance was March 30, 1933 in Winder, Georgia. Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor physicians. The date was the anniversary of the first use […]
Read more5 Benefits of Employee Development Programs
The unemployment rate for healthcare workers is 3.2% as of December 2015 (http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag62.htm). This fact means that if you are a Human Resources professional in the healthcare field, you must work harder than ever to attract and retain the best […]
Read moreA Nurse’s Letter to the Interns
It happens every summer – a new crop of interns show up on my hospital unit. It’s a nice rite of passage – a handful of new baby docs show up and spend a few months shadowing our unit’s physicians. […]
Read more5 Major Challenges in Healthcare Recruitment Today
For this post I interviewed Jason Campbell, Talent Acquisition Manager at Mount Carmel Health System. He shared the top challenges and solutions of healthcare recruitment today. This blog provides specific solutions to some of the current top healthcare challenges. Jason […]
Read moreMagnet Designation and Nurses
If you have been a nurse for longer than a minute, you’ve heard about Magnet hospitals, but you may not have heard what it actually means for patients and for nurses to be in a Magnet hospital. It’s easy to […]
Read moreYou saw that? Social Media Smarts for Physicians
A doctor grabs a drink with friends after work and afterwards posts a picture of himself and his friends, smiling with a beer in their hands. No big deal, right? Except the doctor still had his scrubs on, and it […]
Read moreDealing Effectively with Shift Changes and Patient Handoffs
If you have kids, you know the worst time of day is that hour before dinner – kids are needy and cranky after school, homework has to get started, and dinner has to be created. Similarly, if you are a […]
Read moreTips for Dealing with Difficult Patients
In an ideal world, your patients would all be polite and pleasant. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. If you work in healthcare, it’s inevitable you will have to deal with difficult patients. From the patient who is cursing you […]
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