Dallas, TX. – July, 2024. The Nurses Lounge (NL), a career marketplace for nurses, announced they will be launching a mobile app enabled on-demand staffing platform this fall that includes a localized Float Pool. Participating DFWHC facilities will have unlimited access to the NL Float Pool for staffing their open PRN/Per Diem shifts for a flat monthly subscription fee.
“As the internet replaced Sunday employment ads, today's connective mobile app enabled technology is set to replace health facilities dependency on temp staffing firms. Doing so will save health systems millions of dollars annually,” said Tim Armes, President and Co-founder of Nurses Lounge.
The platform essentially serves as a workforce marketplace where healthcare facilities will directly post temp staffing opportunities to qualified healthcare professionals who will then be able to apply for, and accept jobs directly on the Float Pool’s mobile app.
The NL Float Pool offers nursing professionals a more flexible work/life balance and more choices for work at preferred locations while saving healthcare facilities potentially millions in temp agency fees, overtime pay and sign-on bonuses.
Services Include:
A suite of on-demand staffing technologies and services (NL Float Pool) for a flat monthly rate.
An interactive lounge page for each facility where they may highlight unique benefits of the facility and other current information.
Permanent nursing openings may also be added to the Nurses Lounge facility job map via a feed from their ATS.
“The Nurses Lounge facility job map provides nurses a 365-degree view of all the current job openings at facilities within an easy commuting distance. This is important as location is one of the top search requirements when nurses look for jobs,” explained Mr. Armes.
What is Nurses Lounge?
Nurses Lounge was created to aggregate and connect the nursing profession (nurses, schools, associations and healthcare facilities) on a single platform.
Maximize the timely distribution of essential information to highly targeted audiences of nursing professionals.
Provides nurses with a unique suite of features and content designed to assist with the advancement of their careers.
Some of the present participating organizations already includes over 180 BSN schools, The Texas Association of Deans and Directors of Professional Nursing Programs (TADDPNP) and The National Association of Nurse Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA LTC).
History
Mr. Armes, after the sale of Jobs.com which he founded in the late 90’s, took over a nursing job board named NursesLounge.com in 2001. He then launched a monthly direct mail magazine sent to 35k RNs in the DFW market.
During that time, John Gavras, then president of DFWHC, suggested a business plan to Mr. Armes where all hospitals could pool their nursing employees from which to draw temporary staff from. This was designed to substantially reduce each hospital’s growing staffing costs.
Today’s Staffing Industry Direction
Today with the growth of efficient tech-driven, on-demand mobile app-based recruiting, over 20 staffing firms in recent years have raised well over $100 million, primarily from equity capital firms.
A large percentage of the funds raised by these firms are spent competing with healthcare facilities to employ nurses. All at a time when the available number of nurses are shrinking.
Additionally, it is estimated that by the end of 2024 there will be over 500 staffing firms utilizing this platform model with potentially over 1,000 firms each with their own mobile app within a few short years.
However, what hasn’t changed, is the hourly mark-up fees charged by the agencies. Studies show facilities with over 100 beds are paying an average of $3.6 million dollars annually in staffing fees and costs are expected to only increase as the available pool of nurses shrink.
“So, the real question is,” asks Mr. Armes, “what staffing model has the most positive impact on the industry? A single mobile app that connects all hospitals with large pools of trusted local nurses interested in picking up extra shifts (similar to the Uber/Airbnb models) or 1,000 different staffing firms all with their own apps competing for nurses while continuing to charge facilities hourly staffing fees?”
Learn More
To learn more about how you can save with Nurses Lounge subscription-based staffing platform go to www.nurseslounge.com to schedule a demo.
**The monthly subscription fee will not start until the 1st month after a facility fills their first shifts.