Registered nurse - Registered Nurse YesCare Employee Review

We appreciate your feedback and wanted to provide some insight as to how staffing levels are determined. During the RFP process with our clients, certain staffing plans are created and submitted with our bid. We rely on our 30+ years of industry knowledge to reach the most suitable staffing levels, based on a variety of matrices - including complexity of facility, acuity of patient population, average daily population in the site, etc. If anything changes at a site level, say, a transfer of a couple hundred inmates, we have an opportunity to go back to the client and suggest increased staffing. If the client is in support, an addendum to the contract is done at which time we can start recruiting and hiring for additional employees. Outside of situations like that, we don’t have much ability to flex staffing as it is part of a government contract. That said, as you mentioned, turnover has a major impact on the day-to-day operations of any medical unit, corrections or otherwise. We have an aggressive initiative in place (started mid-year 2015, and is currently being rolled out, company-wide), to address best practices in recruiting, selection, and on-boarding of all new employees. We’ve started seeing the positive results of the initiative already, and look forward to even further decreases in turnover, in the months to come. Our greatest assets are our employees, and we want to make a conscious effort to make sure they feel that, from day one. Courtney Penning