Information Overload in the Nurse World & How to Fix It
Healthcare management is notorious for overloading staff with too much information, diluting information that truly is important.
Why It Matters That Your Staff Members Are Using NurseGrid
We designed NurseGrid Mobile to cut straight to the chase, offering features requested by nurses around the country, all while keeping the tools clean and straightforward.
5 Tips to Take Your Schedule from Paper to Digital
Staff scheduling in healthcare has continued to be stuck in the dark ages. The decision to switch from pen, paper, and Excel to online doesn’t have to feel like a big leap. Here are a few simple considerations for you to factor in as you look to move from scheduling on trees to scheduling on pixels.
Datasheet: Product Overview
Download our Product Overview now to learn how Manager works and understand the impact it will have on your department and staff.
Nurses Week Celebration & Giveaway!
Nurses care for so much more than the just the primary dx, they tend to anxiety, fears, and sometimes anger(!) of all those in the room. That is why we take a whole week to celebrate nurses. And that is why we have a few ways to enter to win some awesome prizes this week.
Infographic: Removing Practice Barriers for Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners provide Americans with important services in healthcare. Unfortunately, NPs face many barriers restricting them from full practice authority.
4 Suggestions I Give Every Nurse Looking for a Job
After holding five different positions as a nurse over the last decade, here are a few tips I typically share when asked for advice on getting a job in the nursing field.
7 Ways Nurse Managers Can Boost Staff Satisfaction
The positive effects of increased staff satisfaction in nursing units are well researched. These 7 tips will help you to increase your staff’s satisfaction, making the rest of your goals much easier to achieve.
NurseGrid Raises $5.7 Million to Transform Healthcare Scheduling and Staffing Tools
Today, we are thrilled to announce our Series B funding round of $5.7 million, led by Hatteras Venture Partners. It’s an exciting way to start off 2018 and we have big plans for the year ahead.
An Interview with NurseGrid Ambassador Ellyn Wirth, RN, BSN
We recently spoke with one of our NurseGrid Ambassadors in an effort to hear and share her story with our community. Give it a read and let us know if you’d like for us to share your story!
Struggling to Cover Staffing Holes? There Are Free Tools
When I worked in a hospital department, we would regularly receive emails from management pleading with us to pick up extra shifts. It always struck me as a clunky, inefficient way to solicit staff to take on open shifts. Outside of NurseGrid’s innovative open-shift platform, there were no solutions for those who weren’t NurseGrid Manager customers – until now.
NurseGrid Manager Mobile App Is Now Available to Everyone
NurseGrid has placed the power of staff management in your hands. Literally. NurseGrid Manager is our newest mobile app that enables nurse managers to: adapt to census changes quickly, approve shift swaps and giveaways on the go, and more. The best feature? It is completely free.
What Makes NurseGrid So Special? It’s the Nursing Nuances
When NurseGrid was just a concept 3 years ago, we spent a significant amount of time trying to convince others that there was a deep void in the nursing market. After all, we were nurses ourselves and had felt this void first hand.
8 Rules to Pass the NCLEX from a Nurse Who Took All 265 Questions
The NCLEX and I had some good times and some bad times, but mainly just spent a lot of time together. Here are my "8 Rules" if you want to pass the NCLEX- no matter how many questions it takes.
Hidden Nurse Anxiety
Anxiety can significantly impact many nurses’ work environments. Personally speaking, nothing has shaped my career as a nurse more than anxiety derived from negative nursing experiences.
How to Be a Great Nurse Leader
Being a great nurse leader isn’t something you do; it’s something you are. And effective management style has a big impact on nurse retention. As a nurse and a leader one must be hardworking, compassionate, organized, and in control, leading by example and not just with words.
Takes One to Know One: Nurse Retention from a Personal Perspective
Reasons that nurses leave have been well documented; however, not everything can be analyzed by statistics, dollar signs, or anecdotes from Managers and CNOs. Here are the main reasons nurses leave their jobs from the perspective of a nurse on the front lines.
The Key to Technology Adoption on Hospital Departments
There’s a dichotomy within hospitals in which the medicine they’re practicing is cutting edge, but the technology they’re providing their staff is anything but. From the hospital’s perspective, there is a rationale behind this.
Introducing Schedule Upload for NurseGrid Manager
Whether your schedule lives in your hospital's current scheduling technology or on a spreadsheet, our new Schedule Upload feature was developed to help managers get their department schedule online and in the hands of nurses in seconds.
Filling the Void and Feeling the Love
After moving from the bedside to the desk-side 7 months ago, I was blown away by the amount of simple, powerful technology businesses have at their disposal. Nursing has been left behind, but NurseGrid is changing that.
Why is Nurse Scheduling Stuck in the Dark Ages?
Creating a perfect schedule for your nursing department is like cooking a buffet for one hundred people, each with their own set of food allergies.
Why Does a Tech Company Have a VP of Nursing?
When I started out in nursing, I knew little of what it took to be a nurse outside of assessments and patient care. In today’s world, it isn’t enough to just be a good clinical nurse. Like it or not, technology has become a part of our society and therefore a part of our industry.