Job unemployment over the past year may have been the lowest it has been in seven years, but health care recruiters will tell you they’ve still got plenty to do, what with trying to find pharmacists and lab technicians and nurses. Read More

Thirty percent of respondents listed their title as recruiter. Salaries among recruiters ranged from $30,000 a year to $89,000 a year. The majority — 85% — reported annual gross income in the $30,000 to $59,000 range. Read More

There are plenty of data to support the notion that the higher the stress level nurses face, the greater the chance they will leave their jobs. Read More

How many of your employees are moms with kids to take care of when they aren’t at work? And how closely do you pay attention to making it easy for them to come to work by ensuring that the needs of their families are met? Read More

Attention human resources professionals: Programs that are good for recruitment and retention don’t have to operate in a vacuum. Some of them even can be great for patient health and satisfaction and can have a great impact on the hospital bottom line. Case in point: the VHA Transformation of the ICU program. Read More

Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, GA, and its four much smaller sister facilities in the area just received a best practice award for its recruitment and retention programs from the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA — a sub-body of the American Hospital Association). Read More

Although there is concern over how well older nurses in particular can handle the demands of their jobs, health care appears to be a great industry for older workers. Read More