Workforce
Inside the staffing math: how one health system rebuilt its nursing pipeline in 18 months
Facing a 19% vacancy rate, a Midwestern network rewrote its recruitment, residency, and retention playbook.
Industry Insights
Workforce strategy, staffing economics, and the technology reshaping how nursing care gets delivered.
Workforce
Health systems shift contingent-labor budgets toward internal float pools
CFOs are trading premium agency rates for in-house flexibility — with mixed early results.
Technology
AI triage tools are entering the ED — here's what nurses are reporting
Early adopters describe time saved on intake and new questions about accountability.
Operations
Onboarding tech promises faster ramp-up. Does it deliver?
Vendors pitch weeks of time savings; nurse educators urge caution.
Finance
Travel nurse pay cools for a fifth straight quarter as permanent hiring rebounds
The premium that defined 2021–2023 continues to compress toward baseline.
Workforce
The new-grad residency programs with the highest one-year retention
A look at what separates the stickiest transition-to-practice models.
Technology
Smart rooms and ambient monitoring: useful, or just more alarms?
Nurses weigh signal against the fatigue of yet another dashboard.
Operations
Self-scheduling tools gain ground as systems chase flexibility
Apps let nurses build their own rosters — within guardrails.
Finance
Where staffing dollars actually go: a breakdown of nursing labor cost
Premium pay, overtime, and turnover each take a bigger bite than expected.
Workforce
Four-day workweeks reach the bedside in a handful of pilots
Compressed schedules show promise for retention — and logistical headaches.