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You run the staffing grid, and every unfilled RN position on it lands somewhere: mandatory overtime, holes in the weekend schedule, charge nurses taking patients. The national numbers say RN turnover hit 17.6% last year and filling an experienced RN position takes 78 days on average. That’s two and a half months of the nurses who stayed absorbing the work of the one who left. Tired nurses are the next resignations you’re trying to prevent.
The usual bridge is agency and travel coverage, and it holds the schedule together while it drains the budget. A traveler costs a premium every single week, the premium never converts into anything permanent, and your employed nurses do the same work next to someone earning more. That’s its own retention problem. A single RN departure now costs a hospital $60,090 on average, and the typical hospital loses over $4 million a year to RN churn. Every permanent hire who stays takes a bite out of that number.
We recruit permanent clinical staff for acute care, and we’ve done it for health systems including Lee Health and HCA. The work is direct outreach to nurses and clinicians who are already employed and never see a job posting, screened hard for two things: they can do the job on day one, and they fit the way your organization actually runs. Fit is what keeps a placement in position at 90 days and beyond, so we screen for it as hard as we screen for skills.
$60,090
The average cost of a single staff RN departure.
78 days
The national average to recruit one experienced RN.
One-time fee
A permanent hire ends the weekly traveler premium for good.
What we recruit for acute care
Registered Nurses across med-surg, emergency, ICU, and surgical services.
Nurse Managers and Directors of Nursing.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
Clinical leadership through the CNO level.
“I look to him as a trusted advisor, as opposed to other vendors that just submit candidates to us. He not only gives his all to find a candidate, but also makes a point to get to know you, which has enhanced our relationship.”
Chip Knox
Recruiter, Lee Health
Recruiter, Lee Health
Acute Care FAQs
Why is it so hard to hire experienced RNs right now?
Turnover is elevated, vacancy rates are stuck, and the experienced nurses you want are already employed. They aren’t reading job boards, so a posting can’t reach them. Direct outreach can, and that’s how we work every search.
Can you help us cut travel nurse spend?
That’s usually the fastest win. Travelers keep patients covered while the premium compounds week after week. We replace that spend with permanent nurses who join your staff directly, so the money stops going out the door every Friday.
How do you recruit nurses who never apply to postings?
We call them. Then we give them what a posting never does: real answers on the unit, the ratios, the schedule, and the leadership they’d work under. Nurses move for clarity and fit. We bring both to the first conversation.
We're a large health system. Can you work at our scale?
Yes. We’ve recruited for health systems including Lee Health and HCA, and we run multi-position searches the same proactive way we run single ones. Volume doesn’t change the screen. Every candidate still has to clear it.