Feeling the effects of the nursing shortage? Let FTE Connect help you find the staff you need without expensive fees or time-consuming ad placement!
FTE Source has created FTE Connect, an innovative, web-based application that brings healthcare facilities together with both individual professionals as well as other local facilities. This application works to mutually benefit all members by providing a secure, non-competitive network of staffing resources. In an industry saturated with expensive staffing services such as recruiters, headhunters, temp agencies and staffing management technologies, FTE Connect provides a much-needed, cost-effective alternative. With this application, facilities of all sizes can finally:
- Manage short-term staffing fluctuations
- Minimize staffing costs
- Maximize staffing potential
- Improve recruitment
- Manage long-term staffing needs
- Increase employee retention
- Enhance patient care
- Eliminate third party costs
Added Value
FTE Source developed this simple yet highly effective technology to help facilities improve their operations and financial well-being, which ultimately translates into better patient care and a better place to work. The networking approach taken within the FTE Connect application not only connects facilities to each other, but also to outside professionals looking for those positions facilities need to fill. By providing individuals with free registration on FTE Personal, the overall value of FTE Connect is greatly enhanced.
Furthermore, FTE Connect can help improve internal human resources efficiencies. FTE Connect gives each member facility flexible options that allow staff members 24/7 access to the system to view extra shifts that are unstaffed. We can either provide facilities with several generic logins that can be used internally to access the system, or facilities can submit staff information to us and we will create personal logins for each individual staff member to use. Not only do other facilities and outside professionals have the opportunity to fill these shifts, but internal employees are granted equal consideration as well. More people will see the postings, increasing the likelihood that vacancies will be filled. Plus, allowing employees the chance to earn extra money will only help improve the work environment.
Solutions to Overstaffing
Due to fluctuations in patient demand, facilities commonly experience overstaffing in one or more of the patient delivery categories. Unfortunately, this can often cause a costly cycle of laying off good employees during slow periods, only to rely on expensive staffing solutions or overworking your remaining staff when demand picks back up. The extra cost of temporary staffing, headhunters and recruiters, classified ads and career days can add up quickly, and yet, the original problem remains unsolved.
What if this cycle could be avoided entirely? While FTE Connect cannot control the fluctuations in demand, the application can provide an affordable solution to the problems encountered as a result. By posting available staff, facilities can, in effect, "lease" idle staff members to other facilities in the area. The time and expense of laying off staff members, only to hire them or other personnel back, is all but eliminated, and the costs of maintaining idle staff are recouped. Furthermore, this leads to a boost in morale and confidence among staff members, creating a more positive work environment and leading to improved patient care.