Leon Santoso / Chief Human Resources Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Hospitals that recruit nurses from abroad should pay every cost of doing so, including fees taken by intermediaries they never meet, and should stop using exit penalties to recover the expense. It is the cheapest way to keep a nurse past the first contract.
Read the essayHospitals that recruit nurses from abroad should pay every cost of doing so, including fees taken by intermediaries they never meet, and should stop using exit penalties to recover the expense. It is the cheapest way to keep a nurse past the first contract.
A hospital group with wards on both sides of a large wage gap cannot stop nurses crossing it. It should run the crossing as a priced internal pathway with a route home, so the losing hospital is paid to train replacements and the nurses who leave have a reason to return.
Seniority-based rostering quietly sends a hospital's least experienced nurses into the hours with the least supervision. Night shifts should be weighted towards experienced nurses, with a premium large enough to make that a choice they accept.