Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

12 charged in Florida as part of ‘Operation Nightingale’ sting on low-quality nursing schools
The defendants include operators and staff at nursing schools that were shut down over accusations they provided pay-for-play degrees that RNs and LPNs used to obtain licenses.
A robot may soon be handling patients' ultrasounds in a Wisconsin health system
The machine will be operated remotely by a sonographer who has been trained to conduct remote ultrasound exams.
Survey: 55% of clinicians seeking new work amid healthcare labor shortages
In a Harris Poll, the vast majority (84%) of frontline healthcare workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs, though most said they’d consider staying in their current role if provided an opportunity for education and career advancement.
Radiology groups voice ‘enthusiastic support’ for proposal to add 14,000 more Medicare-funded residency slots
The Society of Interventional Radiology and American College of Radiology are thanking lawmakers for reintroducing the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act.
Members of Congress propose tapping foreign-born physicians to relieve radiology workforce shortages
Lawmakers in both chambers have reintroduced the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, touting support from the American Hospital Association and several physician societies.

Only 21% of healthcare leaders say they’ve implemented AI in medical imaging

However, about 62% of decision-makers at the management and executive level said they plan to do so within the next five years.

Philanthropic foundation to spend $250M training tomorrow’s healthcare workers across 10 cities

A new model of healthcare workforce training emphasizes recruitment and training of teenagers starting in 10th grade.

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg puts up $250M to open healthcare high schools for training radiologic technologists

The first institutions are slated to open this year via health system partnerships in Boston, Charlotte, Dallas and Houston.

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Many radiology residents facing double-whammy of heavy debt burden, poor financial literacy

About 60% of those surveyed said they had more than $100,000 in liabilities after graduating from medical school, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging.

How radiologists’ use of vacation days can impact burnout

Across 3,000 U.S. physicians surveyed, 60% took three weeks of vacation or fewer per year and 70% worked while away, both factors leading to burnout.

Could enticing retired radiologists back into practice help solve the workforce crisis?

Employing a "silver squad" of former physicians to decompress work lists should be a "strong consideration" for any practice, one expert argued.

Bill Shields retires after more than 25 years leading ACR’s legal department

He first joined the college as general counsel in 1998, previously working with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Video of Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Professor of Clinical Radiology and Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, offering tips to retain radiologists. #greatresignation #ACR #RSNA #radiology

Improving recruitment and retention in radiology

Geraldine McGinty, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how practices can retain radiologists during the Great Resignation in healthcare.

Staffing

12 charged in Florida as part of ‘Operation Nightingale’ sting on low-quality nursing schools

A robot may soon be handling patients' ultrasounds in a Wisconsin health system

Survey: 55% of clinicians seeking new work amid healthcare labor shortages

Radiology groups voice ‘enthusiastic support’ for proposal to add 14,000 more Medicare-funded residency slots

Members of Congress propose tapping foreign-born physicians to relieve radiology workforce shortages