In this issue

	Check out Favorite Staffing New Website!
	Where do YOU Want to go?
	Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005
	Favorite Nurses: No Longer the "Other" Job!

On the web

	Employee Sign In
	Local Branch Offices
	Favorite Benefits

Hot job of the week
Take a summer vacation and get PAID! Favorite Staffing has travel assignments in great vacation destinations. Check out today's article for more information and give us a call at 800-755-1411!

Check out Favorite Staffing New Website!

Our website is now easier to use!

Our website has a whole new look and improved functionality! The biggest improvements include the shortened application process, new location map and ease in completing the skills checklist.

Now's a great time to update your credentials or skills checklist. Just go to www.favoritestaffing.com, enter your user name and password and click on "Sign In." You'll be given options to go to your profile (where your skills checklist is located), your payroll or your Rewards account!

We encourage you to visit the site and give us your feedback! You may email your comments to newsletter@favoritestaffing.com.

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Where do YOU Want to go?

Travel assignments are available in a number of great locations across the nation!

With spring in full bloom, there's no doubt that it's a great time to get moving. If you're just aching for new scenery, Favorite Nurses can help! We can arrange a travel assignment in the city of your choice, and we'll take care of all the details! Below are the "hot spots" that are available immediately. If you don't see your favorite destination listed, just give us a call at 800-755-1411 or email us at gotravel@favoritestaffing.com and let us know where you want to go!

• Providence, RI - MS, TELE, ICU, OR, PICU, ER, PEDS
• Boston, MA - MS, ORTHO, ICU, TELE, ICU, OR
• Kansas City, MO - MS, TELE, ICU, NICU, PICU, ER, RRT
• Springfield, MO - MS, TELE, NICU, ICU
• Nashville, TN - MS, ER, TELE, ICU
• Orange County, CA - MS, TELE, ICU, NICU
• St Paul, MN - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, OR, LDR
• Milwaukee, WI - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, OR, LDR
• Indianapolis, IN - PICU, OR, PEDS, ICU
• Orange City, FL - PACU, ICU, ER, MS, PCU
• St Louis, MO - MS, TELE, ICU, OR
• Lewes, DE - OR, CORR, PEDS, ER
• Seattle, WA - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, PICU, NICU, OR
• Tacoma, WA - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, OR, PACU
• Phoenix, AZ - MS, TELE, ICU, OR, ER, LDR
• Pittsburgh, PA - MS, TELE, ICU, ER
• Silver Spring, MD - MS, PCU, ER, ICU, OR
• Tucson, AZ - MS, TELE, ICU, OR, ER
• Baltimore, MD - PEDS, ICU, PSYCH, TELE, PICU, NICU
• Portland, OR - MS, TELE, ICU, NICU, ER, OR
• Columbus, OH - MS, TELE, ICU
• Atlanta, GA - MS, TELE, OR, ICU, LDR, PACU, ER, RAD,
• Springfield, MA - MS, TELE, ICU, LDR, PSYCH
• Columbia, SC - MS, TELE, ICU, NICU, OR
• Charleston, SC - MS, TELE, ICU, OR,
• NYC, NY - TELE, ICU, ER, MS, CATH LAB, OR, PACU
• Philadelphia, PA - ER, LDR, MS, TELE, ICU
• Raleigh, NC - LDR, MS, TELE, ICU, ER
• New Bern, NC - MS, ER, OR
• Chicago, IL - PSYCH, LDR, TELE, ICU, MS
• Denver, CO - MS, TELE, ICU, LDR, ER, NICU
• Fairview Hts, IL - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, OR
• Hartford, CT - MS, TELE, ICU, CATH, PACU, ONC
• Dallas, TX - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, LDR
• Norfolk, VA - MS, TELE, ICU, ER, PACU, ONC
• Cincinnati, OH - MS, TELE, ICU
• Charlotte, NC - MS, TELE, ICU
• Cleveland, OH - MS, TELE, ICU, OR

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Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005

This new Act focuses on patient safety and proper nurse staffing.

State and federal officials took important steps toward the safety and security of the nursing profession with proposed legislation and funding for nurse staffing and education initiatives. On March 17, United States Representatives Lois Capps, (D-California), a registered nurse, and Robert Simmons (R-Connecticut), proposed a bill to ensure safe, adequate staffing in health care facilities.

The Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005 has been designed to ensure that patients receive safe, quality nursing care in hospitals and health care institutions, according to Capps.

“The absence of enforceable standards for nurse staffing and the widespread practice of health care facilities stretching their nursing staff with unsafe patient loads, mandatory overtime, ‘floating’ to specialty units without training or orientation and other practices undermine the delivery of safe, quality care,” Capps said.

“This bill would allow each hospital, in consultation with the nursing staff, to implement a staffing system that ensures an appropriate number of registered nurses on each shift and in each unit of the hospital to guarantee appropriate patient care,” she added. “It guarantees that hospitals will draw on the expertise of their medical staff to set these ratios, using their knowledge to set the best staffing system at their facility.”

According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), which joined the representatives in lobbying for the bill, the Quality Nursing Care Act, if enacted, would require that the staffing systems:

• Be created in partnership with direct-care RNs or their designated representative.
• Be based on the number of patients and level and intensity of care to be provided, including admissions, discharges and transfers.
• Account for architecture and geography of the environment and available technology.
• Reflect the level of preparation and experience of those providing care.
• Reflect staffing levels recommended by specialty nursing organizations.
• Provide that an RN not be forced to float to a particular unit without prior training or orientation.

"This legislation is necessary to protect patients and to improve the nursing work environment, and it will help recruit new people into the profession while also retaining practicing nurses,” said Barbara Blakeney, RN, MS, ANA president.

For more information, visit the ANA website: www.ana.org.

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Favorite Nurses: No Longer the "Other" Job!

Major medical insurance is available to RNs, and accident/sickness coverage is available to all our employees!

As a healthcare worker, you know better than most about the increasing costs of healthcare services. You also know that working on temporary or contract assignments traditionally meant foregoing good health insurance coverage. At Favorite Staffing, that's no longer the case.

We now offer major medical insurance
to RNs through BlueCross/BlueShield!

To qualify, you need to work an average of 30 hours or more per week.
The benefits you will enjoy are as follows:

• Major medical and dental coverage
• $2,000,000 lifetime maximum medical benefit
• Access to BlueCross/BlueShield national PPO network
• Two medical options from which to choose
• Prescription drug and mail order drug benefits
• Premiums subsidized by Favorite Staffing
• Dependent coverage is available

While this benefit is currently available for RNs only, others not qualifying for BlueCross/BlueShield coverage are invited to participate in Starbridge, an accident and sickness insurance program.

Tell your friends! These great benefits make earning our referral bonus easier than ever!

Now Favorite Staffing can be your only job!

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