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.

João Cavalcante, MD, Minneapolis Heart Institute, spoke at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2023 meeting to try and get more radiologists interested in cardiac imaging to help fill the rising need for cardiac imagers on structural heart teams and a growing number of other types of heart and acute care teams.

Filling the crucial role of multimodality imagers on the heart team

João Cavalcante, MD, spoke at RSNA 2023 about key topics and tried to get more radiologists interested in cardiac imaging.

December 15, 2023
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Fired nurse wins $41.5M wrongful termination lawsuit

Former Kaiser Permanente nurse Maria Gatchalian will receive $11.49 million in compensatory damages from her ex-employer, $9 million of which is to make amends for emotional distress, along with some $30 million in punitive damages.

December 14, 2023
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Texas Radiology Associates creates new CEO role, picks veteran administrator

Former RBMA President Mark Kalmar, MBA, longtime leader of Corvallis Radiology, recently took on the new title for TRA. 

December 13, 2023
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8 practical strategies to retain radiologists

Jay R. Parikh, MD, and Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, offered their insights in a new pre-proof opinion piece published in JACR.  

December 13, 2023
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Only 9% of practices list pediatric radiology as a top 3 hiring need, survey finds

The results are from the latest American College of Radiology/Radiology Business Management Association Workforce Survey, published in JACR

December 13, 2023
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Rad tech relief coming? Field reports educational program enrollment increases

Program directors have seen year-over-year upticks in students studying radiography, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine, according to ASRT. 

December 13, 2023
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Ghoulish selfie-taking nurse sentenced after victimizing patients, hospital

At a time when patient assaults against nurses are reportedly on the rise, cases that invert the equation only reinforce the public’s perception that hospitals are chaotic places.

December 12, 2023

Radiologist highlights a potential hidden cause of physician burnout

UCLA's Dieter R. Enzmann, MD, detailed his thesis in a perspective piece published in Academic Radiology. 

December 7, 2023