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  • Title: Achieving effective staffing through a shared decision-making approach to open-shift management.
    Author: Valentine NM, Nash J, Hughes D, Douglas K.
    Journal: J Nurs Adm; 2008; 38(7-8):331-5. PubMed ID: 18690123.
    Abstract:
    Managing costs while retaining qualified nurses and finding workforce solutions that ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care is of primary importance to nurse leaders and executive management. Leading healthcare organizations are using open-shift management technology as a strategy to improve staffing effectiveness and the work environment. In many hospitals, open-shift management technology has become an essential workforce management tool, nursing benefit, and recruitment and retention incentive. In this article, the authors discuss how a successful nursing initiative to apply automation to open-shift scheduling and fulfillment across a 3-hospital system had a broad enterprise-wide impact resulting in dramatic improvements in nurse satisfaction, retention, recruitment, and the bottom line.
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