It goes without saying: when you welcome a new nurse or physician onto your hospital team, your goal is to get them up-to-speed as quickly and fully as possible.
Clearly, your onboarding program plays a huge role here. Beyond orientation, immersing new hires in your procedures, best practices, compliance requirements, etc., is necessary to quality patient care.
But for new employees, adapting to a new work environment takes more than learning its processes and systems—and that’s especially true for those relocating from afar.
For them, the challenge isn’t merely learning their way around your hospital, but your entire city. It’s about moving their family and household goods. Finding a new place to live. Possibly buying and/or selling a house. It’s a lot of work, with a lot of emotion attached.
And until they’re largely settled, new hires may struggle to fully focus on work. The problem is: in a healthcare environment, how can you settle for anything less?
The answer is simple: you can’t. That’s why providing new hires with relocation services—not just a relocation allowance—makes so much sense, helping them achieve full productivity faster.
In our experience, hospitals are much more likely to offer prospective hires a flat relocation allowance versus multi-dimensional relocation benefits. What are relocation benefits? With a good relocation company, these include:
These tools and services have the power to simplify your incoming doctors and nurses’ relocation, freeing them to focus almost immediately on their work. For example, your new hires will…