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Ohio clinic creates online staffing tool

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 22, 2007

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Next month, the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) is expected to introduce an internal staffing tool with the goal of helping its hospitals better fill nurse vacancies.

The tool is called the Cleveland Clinic Agency Resources System and it is a centralized list of available nurses who can cover temporary staffing within CCHS's nine hospitals. The Web-based system will keep track of any RN or LPN with two years of acute care experience who is willing to work for at least three clinic hospitals.

Nurses who sign up for the program can use the online system to sign up for and accept or decline work assignments. Nurses do not have to work either a minimum hourly requirement or a minimum number of shifts. The tool is expected to improve nurse retention and recruitment within the system, since it offers nurses more control over their work schedules and additional flexibility.

Sources: The Plain Dealer (OH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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