HR Pulse - Summer 2008 - (Page 56) Changing the Paradigm of Nurse Recruitment By Sharon I. Kushner, RN, BSN, MSN 56 HR Pulse Summer 2008 magine having a highly trained in-house staff of nurse recruiters focused solely on recruiting quality RNs. These recruiters would be able to devote their entire effort to attracting an applicant pool and reducing vacancy rates. Impossible? Not anymore. Fran Keane, vice president of HR for CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, N.J., is one of a number of HR professionals who have found a solution. Here is CentraState’s success story. I At CentraState, RN vacancy rates remained stuck between 8 and 10 percent, so the organization implemented an active, outcome-driven, urgent, and responsive recruitment program. RN vacancy rates at CentraState remained stuck between 8 and 10 percent despite the use of best recruitment practices. This 248-bed magnet facility had been able to reduce vacancies from a high of 20 percent with three years of concerted effort, using consultants and examples from paradigmatic companies like Disney. However, further reductions were elusive, and success was only fleeting. In April 2007, the human resources leadership of CentraState knew they needed to do something different. So, they implemented an improved recruitment program to transform the old passive order of business to an active process that was outcome-driven, urgent, and responsive. The program began with a 30-day assessment of CentraState’s situation by a support services team, which looked at overall and unit-specific vacancy rates, critical needs, barriers to recruitment, tracking methods, and usual means
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