3. HIRING AND ONBOARDING SERVICES FILL NURSING VACANCIES

Staffing is a pressing issue across many industries and organizations. Companies like non-acute facilities can turn to purchased services to find, hire and onboard employees, including nurses.

The end-to-end hiring process is often extremely time consuming. Many organizations lack the time and personnel resources to dedicate to interviewing, hiring and training employees. Purchased services can find nurses for non-acute organizations to fill any type of opening across urgent care, physician offices and other types of facilities.

4. IT SERVICES IMPROVE NURSES’ EFFICIENCY

Nurses and other staff can be more effective and efficient with modern technology that’s user friendly and assists them with their jobs. Today’s IT systems can help nurses and facilities deliver optimum telehealth experiences for patients—which has grown in popularity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic—and help staff quickly access patients’ electronic health records to see their medical history.

“Health IT also supports one of the strongest tenets of nursing—educating the patient and family,” according to Nursing World.  

Current technology helps facilities modernize their patient booking strategy to make changing appointments easier and prevent missed appointments. In addition, IT security solutions help keep medical records and facility data protected from breaches. Modern IT approaches can be instrumental in driving a digital transformation across a facility, bringing a shift from time-consuming paper forms and manual processes to digital workflows and automation. In addition, IT can enable modern applications like virtual assistants to help nurses with their jobs, like capturing patient information, and improve the patient experience. 

5. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES HELP NURSES FOCUS ON PATIENT CARE

Many nurses perform work that falls outside the realm of providing patient care. Some nurses are also responsible for billing, office management and procurement, among other duties. Outsourcing non-patient care tasks to a purchased services provider allows nurses to focus on their core jobs.
Purchased services that handle administrative duties help organizations with essential back-end processes, such as accounting, regulatory compliance, IT services and other non-patient-facing services. The right approach to administrative processes can drive new efficiencies and automate some office functions to better support nurses.

6. LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION SERVICES IMPROVE PATIENT COMMUNICATIONS

Language barriers can turn into healthcare barriers when nurses can’t speak the same language as a patient. Hiring bilingual employees can be a challenge and only take an organization so far as there will still be patients who speak languages outside those spoken by staff members.
Utilizing professional interpreters through purchased services contracts can allow facilities to serve a more diverse patient population. Outsourcing this essential service often makes the most sense to ensure interpreters understand privacy rules and have the healthcare expertise to translate accurately.

SAVE ON PURCHASED SERVICES THROUGH A GPO

Using purchased services through a GPO can save organizations money. For example, Provista offers an average of 10% to 15% savings on the services from its suppliers, including purchased services for patient care.