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The need to make adjustments, particularly, like Barb mentioned, for specialty-specific needs, has grown, and I think organizations are realizing-- they've known for a long time, but are really prioritizing their financial health and are…

My background, being a director, I was very familiar with different types of staffing models, with benchmarks, industry standards. And every client that we would visit would ask us to do a staffing analysis compared…

Traditionally, ORs look at the block schedule. And they'll say, we have four ortho rooms on a Monday, two GYN rooms, et cetera. And that's how they'll try to build their staffing schedule. X number…

By aligning all the staffing levels, we're able to identify what the needs are based on the predicted case load and doing it manually the traditional way, we certainly just couldn't accomplish that. Merlin has…

One of the reasons that we wanted to develop this solution is that we've seen some problems with nurse staffing throughout the industry. Almost every organization that we've been in has asked us to evaluate…

Living in a world of perioperations and business and finance, I think it's very easy to fall back on, well, what's the most efficient thing to do? And that is, of course, it's important to…

We try to stick with the AURN guidelines for the direct staff and the indirect staff, but we also know every organization has varying needs of how many variable staff they want to put in…

Not all patients are created equal. I know we definitely have care plans for knee replacement, and moms and babies, and cardiac patients. We have developed really effective care plans from the experience that we…

If we don't truly understand and believe the why, we're not going to do it. So you have to go back and retrain on the why. And so you have to start back at the…

Being a leader in health care is also I think tougher than ever. First of all, being smart is certainly related to being intellectually smart but also emotional intelligence. Having the ability to see what's…