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Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center is a 427-bed non-profit hospital and regional referral center, serving Athens and the 17 surrounding counties. They boast a Level II trauma center and Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and treat more than 80,000 patients each year in the emergency department. Piedmont Athens is a critical part of […]

The East Alabama Health (EAH) health system includes two hospitals, 3,700 associates and 380 physicians. EAH includes East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, AL and EAMC-Lanier Rural Emergency Hospital in Valley, AL. Additional providers in the EAH system include a cancer center, a cardiovascular outpatient center, two ambulatory surgery centers, mental health services, and its…

Music! Everyone loves music and each generation thinks their music is the best (I still do). I remember signing along to the Rolling Stones, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction and my grandfather shaking his head and saying, “What kind of language is I can’t get no”. As I was writing this, I looked at the…

It isn’t news that entry-level hiring in 2024 is difficult. Healthcare systems need valuable non-clinical workers to fill positions like CNAs, environmental, nutrition, patient services, aides and tech roles. Workers are expecting starting wages that are high. Then once they are trained could jump ship to a better paying job in a competitor hospital, or…

Health systems look to offer opportunity to entry-level workers, to help these lower paid workers find their footing and understand healthcare’s many potential career pathways. Frontline non-clinical associates are some of healthcare’s critical employees. These are support and administrative roles, like aides, assistants, environmental, nutrition, and security. These frontline employees may be your potential candidates…

The case for mentoring in Nursing The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 (2021) report identifies mentoring as critical in transitioning to a more equitable healthcare system stating that “new and established nurse leaders – at all levels and in all settings – are needed to lead change” (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, [NAM] 2021,…

Thirty five percent of nurses are novices. Young nurses can become frustrated when they’re not ready to work in some clinical settings if there are additional stressors. An unpleasant workplace, especially as a newer nurse, may lead to overall dissatisfaction, low team morale, and increased turnover.   With continuing unprecedented retirements and healthcare landscape change,…

Hiring great talent can be a daunting task. Recruiting for evolving roles, skill sets, and projects is complicated! True that – even before the many changes that have impacted on the workforce post-Covid. There are ways to alleviate this stress and expedite talent acquisition. One often underutilized hiring method is to nurture talent within the…

This blog article is a summary of a session at AONL 2023 entitled “You may be on to something:” An Updated Model for Frontline Nursing Leadership. This was given by nurse leaders at Inova Health System. At AONL 2023, several visitors to the Catalyst Learning booth talked to us about this session and noted its relevance…

Any new career begins with an onboarding process. In the healthcare sector, onboarding is essential to team efficiency at all levels. Understanding and implementing a successful employee onboarding strategy requires effort from both employer and employee through active participation. There are common pitfalls in healthcare specific and non-healthcare specific onboarding strategies, active engagement from all…