Clinical Interviewing Enables Nurse Managers to Spend Additional 1200 Hours on the Unit

The Client’s Challenge:

Nurse managers have to fill positions on their unit and timing is critical. If prospect nurses aren’t contacted for an interview within 24-hours from the time they are submitted, they often accept other jobs. Nurse managers have a lot of responsibilities and vetting candidates for the exact clinical fit can be a challenge when patients require attention.

Client Benefits:

On average, it takes four calls, often made over consecutive days, to interview a travel clinician. Nurse managers in this health system save valuable time while ensuring they are able to obtain top clinical talent because SimpliFi’s clinical team is interviewing the nurse, on average, in the first eight hours following candidate submission. The average time from candidate submitted to hire-offer-extended decreased from over six days to just over 24 hours as a result of SimpliFi’s clinical team’s involvement.

How SimpliFi Solved the Problem:

Our CNO-led clinical team conducted SimpliFi’s 42 point clinical evaluation on each unit where the client needed interview support. SimpliFi’s clinicians collaborated with the client’s nurse managers to understand their questions and requirements in order to conduct interviews on their behalf. This allowed the nurse managers to focus on their day-to-day responsibilities and obtain the best nurses in an expedited time frame. 

Because SimpliFi analyzes every unit and every facility, its team knows when some nurses might be a fit for another opening within the same health system, whereas nurse managers must focus on filling positions in their unit and facility. SimpliFi also have the opportunity to reach out to nurses who may not have applied to jobs yet to see if they are interested in the open positions