Healthcare Staffing

Per diem LPN work means taking shifts one at a time instead of committing to a fixed schedule. You choose when and where you work, the hourly rate usually runs above staff scale, and you give up guaranteed hours and employer benefits in exchange. Whether that’s a good trade depends […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Denton, Texas — July 30, 2026 Switch, the healthcare staffing platform connecting clinicians with facilities across the Southeast, South Central, and Mountain West, has been named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ (SIA) 2026 list of Fastest-Growing U.S. Staffing Firms. Switch ranked #2 in the per diem nursing category […]

Staffing Industry Analysts has released its 2026 list of the Fastest-Growing U.S. Staffing Firms. Switch came in #2 in per diem nursing and #35 overall across every staffing firm in the country. SIA ranks by compound annual growth rate, which makes it one of the few industry benchmarks measuring something […]

Yes — agency and contract clinicians count toward your nursing home’s turnover rate, the same as employees. CMS puts it plainly: both are included if they work enough hours to be eligible. What decides it isn’t who signs their paycheck. It’s how many hours they worked and whether they came […]

CMS is moving Payroll-Based Journal submissions from QIES to iQIES on August 17, 2026. QIES stops accepting PBJ data after 11:59 PM ET on August 14. Your quarterly deadlines and reporting requirements don’t change — but if your vendor isn’t set up in iQIES before the switch, your Q4 submission […]

If you’ve ever looked at a PRN shift rate next to your staff hourly and thought wait, why is this so much higher? — you’re not missing something. The gap is real, and it’s not a fluke of one facility’s budget. The short answer: a PRN rate is a higher […]

PRN and per diem nursing get used interchangeably all the time — but there’s a real difference, and it changes what you’re actually signing up for. In short: PRN work is usually tied to a single facility, with a baseline of shifts and sometimes benefits. Per diem work is picked […]

The nurse shortage in nursing homes is easing, but not over. Nursing homes added about 40,700 workers in 2025 and CNA turnover fell to roughly 42% — yet 91% of providers still say recruiting is difficult. In 2026 the problem is no longer finding staff. It’s keeping care continuous. If […]

Have you ever come across a job add for a “CNA certified nursing assistants PRN” and wondered what that meant?