Having skilled, dedicated neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) is essential to ensuring quality outcomes in any neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Yet, connecting with top talent isn’t always easy, especially amid healthcare staffing shortages. Fortunately, there are several ways you can improve your NNP outreach. Here are a few strategies to [...]
Finding the best talent for your NICU can be an intricate process. One important step along the way is conducting interviews to screen candidates. When you’ve narrowed down your pool of neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) and are preparing for interviews, be sure to include the following questions. How do you [...]
Setting clear expectations any time you’re working with a firm or agency is critical to success. Strong communication will ensure a smooth experience for everyone involved — including your candidates. Since both you and your search firm enter the process with certain expectations, starting out on the same page will [...]
For many months now, hospitals across the nation have been feeling the pinch of nursing shortages, especially for specialty roles like neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs). In the midst of these challenges, it may be helpful to reassess your talent acquisition strategy so that you’re appealing to the broadest possible pool [...]
Not everyone finds writing about stressful experiences to be stress-relieving, especially with a sick child in the hospital. However, expressive writing, also known in the medical setting as Narrative Medicine, has been shown to enhance empathy and resilience and mitigate burnout for healthcare practitioners, patients, and their families. A recent [...]
The concept of self-governance in nursing has been around for more than 30 years. Since then, the push to include direct care nurses and NNPs in hospital leadership and management decision-making has continued to grow. Self-governance in neonatal care and all disciplines of nursing stems from the premise that nursing [...]
As hard as it may be to read the title of this article, it’s even harder to hear “withdraw care” uttered in the NICU on a regular basis. Should we retire and replace this phrase? Should we instead say, “redirect care as appropriate?” The power of language Alexander Wolf, [...]
A recent, two-week-long study used daily emails and an online survey to measure resilience among NICU workers. You would be justified in wondering if the study itself was meant to test the workers’ resilience. Shockingly, a high percentage of participants dropped out of the study. All joking aside, this [...]
As of Monday, February 22, 2021, we’ve lost more than 500,000 of our fellow Americans to COVID-19. It’s a heartbreaking and sobering milestone for us all. New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are decreasing. Still, the numbers remain stubbornly high, begging the question, how are you and your staff coping [...]
If candidates actively apply for all your open jobs, one might believe that the hard work of recruitment is over. But just like every coin has two sides, so does recruiting. Sometimes the best candidate isn’t someone who's actively seeking a job change. Finding ways to work with passive candidates [...]
