Temporary Workers Now Accrue Sick Leave via Hours Worked

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Recently our team was able to join a conversation about a process that certain states have not experienced before. We thought it would be helpful to provide the answer to the question that resonated the most. If you have any specific industry questions or want to continue the discussion, let us know!

Using Software to Eliminate Bias from Hiring

Artificial intelligence, smart candidate matching, automated onboarding… the keywords are limitless but the concept is the same. Software can help reduce inherent bias in the hiring process.

BlueSky Staffing Software’s Product Update Adds Transparency + Control

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 18, 2020 — BlueSky Medical Staffing Software has released a powerful version update to its clinical talent management system. With hospitals facing financial challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic like increased costs, revenue losses and staffing shortages, locum tenens physicians, travel or temporary nurses and their employer agencies are heavily relied on by […]

Travel Nursing (Part 1): The Contract Cost Conundrum

Especially now, traveling medical professionals provide a critical part of the healthcare we receive today. Why is it that there are so many traveling nurses though? It seems like there would be a middle-ground to find a local professional and mitigate the costs associated with bringing one in from out-of-state. Travel nursing contracts have associated […]

Travel Nursing (Part 2): The Concept of Efficiency

In a prior post, we discussed the phenomena of nurses swapping cities simultaneously to work for 13 weeks, then returning to their respective cities. It doesn’t occur to the requesting healthcare facilities, the source of all job orders, that at the same time they are pulling travel nurses from other parts of the country, hospitals […]

Staffing Industry Giants Hit the Courts (Again): AMN and AYA Case

Aya Healthcare Statement Regarding AMN’s Practices and Recent Court Ruling SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Aya Healthcare has been successful in preventing AMN Healthcare from using unlawful contractual restraints to limit employee mobility in the travel nurse industry. AMN originally sued Aya and our employees in an attempt to prevent AMN employees from joining Aya. AMN’s […]