eBook: The Ultimate Guide to Strike Contingency Planning
How to Choose the Right Strike Workforce Partner
Selecting the right strike workforce partner is crucial for effective labor disruption management. It’s important to understand that not all staffing suppliers have the operational infrastructure and breadth of experience to plan, manage, and staff strikes. Many hospitals make the mistake of approaching strike events the same way as a rapid staffing event. This is a reactive approach that does not meet what is needed for a strike-controlled environment.
Steps to Choosing Your Ideal Strike Workforce Partner:
Look for a partner with proven expertise in supporting healthcare specific labor disruptions, including walk-outs and sympathy strikes. Ensure they have a breadth of experience in both planning and managing work stoppages, and scaling to your specific needs. They should have a robust recruitment engine with nationwide reach and an established network of clinicians who have strike experience or an interest in strike assignments. The partner should provide clinical leadership, regulatory expertise, and guidance on workforce needs and market conditions. Onsite support for healthcare professionals during work stoppages should be offered, including onsite clinical managers.
Onsite support should include clinician transportation and check-in, security protocols including singular points of entry/exit and other measures to support the safety of clinicians.
Non-clinical support for clinicians, such as payroll and lodging, should be provided. The partner should have credentialing and compliance expertise and be able to credential many clinicians in an expedited timeframe. The partner should have extensive experience to advise your facility on best practices for high volume clinician orientation, onboarding, badging, and system provisioning in a strike environment. When evaluating proposals from workforce suppliers, make sure to fully understand the terms, and watch out for hidden fees, and overly complex pricing models.
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