Innovating to Keep Up with High-Paying Travel Nurses.
The pandemic has exacerbated nursing staff shortages, resulting in contract nursing rates surging during successive waves of Covid infections. As hospitals have become increasingly reliant on contract nurses, travel nurse expenditures have risen more than 250% since the start of the pandemic. To cut down on agency contract labor costs, more hospitals are following Trinity's lead and starting their own internal staffing programs. Better pay and staffing conditions remain the top concerns for most nurses, but for more than half of them, flexibility is also key.