Benefits to patients

• Full staffing allows more time for care giving at bedside
• Safer care results when nurses are familiar with unit and procedures
• Teamwork enhanced when nursing staff is consistent: benefits patient continuity of care
• Customer service improves when nurses aren't stretched

Benefits to current contingent nurses

• Familiarity with unit personnel and policies
• No need for constant re-orientation
• Less fear of unknown environment
• Many options for work-life balance
• Maintain connection with one employer
• Able to change work category if circumstances change
• Competitive pay rates
• More stability

Benefits to regular nurses

• More real nursing, less scrambling and covering
• More manageable patient loads on consistent basis
• Reliability, familiarity and competence of in-house agency staff
• Less burden of orienting co-workers
• Regular staff builds teamwork
• FlexChoice options available to you too if your circumstances change
• Don't have to leave the Health System to get into different role

Benefits to doctors

• Better patient care; higher quality
• More satisfied nursing staff
• Safer conditions
• More confidence in nursing care of your patients
• Less turnover

Benefits to the Health System

• All of the above
• This is a long-term solution that replaces our band-aid efforts at nursing pools and stop-gap incentive programs
• More nurses recruited
• More nurses retained
• Dramatically reduce agency costs; divert savings to more beneficial uses
• Become employer of choice
• Become provider of choice