Tips on utilizing hospitalist moonlighters
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, June 10, 2008
Hospital administrators are not only having difficulty filling full-time hospitalist positions due to the nationwide hospitalist shortage, they also face mounting difficulties finding qualified moonlighters to cover evening shifts. A feature article in Today’s Hospitalist discusses ways hospitalist programs can improve moonlighting recruitment and inpatient care. Refer to the following tips for effective inpatient care:
- Consider offering fellows a 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift
- Consider the impact moonlighting has on rounds and admissions and appropriately assign moonlighters as rounders or admitters
- Hire a select number of hospitalists for multiple shifts instead of many hospitalists for occasional shifts
- Leave intensive care up to intensivists instead of moonlighters
- Look to internal evening candidates by seeking full-time and part-time staff first to cover night shifts instead of contracting outside moonlighters
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