June 29, 2018 – The importance of operational practices and policies and the role each employee plays in making sure they are followed is HR 101. But the fact is that deviation from guidelines happens, and it often has unexpected and costly consequences. With labor costs accounting for a significant portion of an organization’s budget, a…
June 12, 2018 – What word causes blood pressures to rise and frustrates both staff and employers? Overtime. A workforce struggle that spans the ages, overtime has its time and place in nearly every industry. But excessive overtime is a pain point for many organizations and burns out employees. What constitutes an excessive amount of overtime?…
May 29, 2018 – Ensuring that quality nurses and other clinical staff are in the right place at the right time is one of the biggest challenges for hospitals and other health-care enterprises. In many health-care organizations today, nurse managers are using little more than guesswork and intuition to schedule the appropriate number of nurses to…
May 7, 2018 – Artificial intelligence (AI) is weaving its way into healthcare whether patients know it or not. AI has become a compelling wave of interest in healthcare as it offers to improve aspects of medical care and inform healthcare leaders how to advance in a rapidly changing environment. But are there circumstances when human compassion…