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Pediatric hospitals operate in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where continuous training is essential to maintaining high-quality patient care and meeting union-mandated staffing regulations. By investing in continuing education, whether as credits or as required classes, pediatric hospitals can improve nurse confidence and improve overall patient outcomes. One of the key challenges in pediatric healthcare is […]

Avoiding Documentation Pitfalls That Lead to Compliance Violations   Accurate and well-maintained documentation is the backbone of compliance in laboratories, pharmacies, and healthcare facilities. Organizations operating under CLIA, CAP, TJC, and USP 797/800 regulations must ensure that all records—whether standard operating procedures (SOPs), training documentation, or audit logs—are up-to-date, accessible, and properly stored. Failure to

This week, we’ll discuss the benefits of using long-term scheduling for stability, satisfaction, and significant cost savings. Long-term scheduling seeks to create or plan work schedules weeks, months, or years in advance. By proactively aligning data on staffing demands with your data on employee availability, you can forecast and create a staffing plan that meets

January and February are typically high-volume hiring months in the medical community, and it’s imperative that onboarding goes smoothly and proceeds at pace and that trainees have all the tools and resources they need to succeed and thrive. At StaffReady, we often hear about onboarding and organizational challenges. Over the past 25 years, we’ve observed

In one of our last news emails (which you can subscribe to here), we discussed the 2025 projection made by several insurers that medical costs would rise by at least 10 percent, with medical inflation making up a large part of that. As you approach a new year of inspections and maintaining employee competencies, avoiding

Unionized healthcare organizations must navigate specific scheduling requirements to honor labor agreements. Effective scheduling strategies centered on seniority, fair shift bidding, and adherence to overtime and payroll regulations are crucial for respecting these agreements while fostering a positive work environment and operational efficiency. Here are four key considerations for healthcare organizations to utilize or consider

As we approach another holiday season, it’s important to remember the difficulties and complications that can arise with scheduling staff around the holidays, especially when it comes to incorporating union rules and ensuring employees have adequate time to recuperate. Long hours and unpredictable schedules contribute to burnout among healthcare workers, which affects both employees and

In 2022, it was announced that an overhaul of proficiency testing (PT) measures would go into effect on July 11th of 2024 and will be implemented in labs in January of 2025. This update will mark the first significant update since 1992 and promises to bring many changes to how laboratory and health organizations handle

Maintaining laboratory compliance is crucial to ensure accurate test results, patient safety, and adherence to regulatory standards such as CLIA. Two of the top deficiencies identified by CMS surveys in 2023 are personnel competency assessment policies (D5209) and the evaluation of proficiency testing performance (D5217). Maintaining compliance with CLIA standards helps laboratories avoid citations, ensures operational reliability,

Crafting a Robust Scheduling Solution Amid a Diminishing Workforce At StaffReady we specialize in clinical workforce management and our close collaboration with schedulers in clinical settings gives us unique insights into emerging trends. One trend, particularly impacting pharmacies, is the challenge of scheduling with a shrinking labor pool. This issue has grown so prevalent that