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| Date of Publication: Friday, August 24, 2007 |
NurseTesting.com Chosen by Premier Magnet Facility, Georgetown University Hospital |
| Georgetown University has chosen NurseTesting.com as its competency testing partner for candidate screening of all healthcare staffing vendors. |
High Point, NC -- As healthcare facilities strive to control labor costs with the use of staffing vendors, there is also a challenge to control the quality of the candidates being chosen to work at these facilities. Georgetown University Hospital has taken a step towards assuring the quality of care delivered by outsourced labor. Georgetown has chosen NurseTesting.com as its compete ncy testing partner for candidate screening of all healthcare staffing vendors.
Under this new partnership, all current healthcare staffing vendors providing Georgetown University Hospital with contract nurses will be asked to screen their candidates with NurseTesting.com's nationally validated exams. Screening candidates gives Georgetown University Hospital a more accurate assessment of a candidate's skill level, leading to better placement of each nurse.
Molly Billingsley, RN, MSN, EdD, Assistant Vice President of operations support at Georgetown University Hospital states "We are very pleased that NurseTesting.com has partnered with us. Carefully screening caregivers is critical in placing qualit y contract staff.”
Georgetown University Hospital is one of the few Magnet hospitals NurseTesting.com, a Division of Amistaff Healthcare Technology, Inc, is considering partnering with for the next phase of its revolutionary exam validation process. This validation proces s will give hospitals and staffing firms access to exam content developed and directly correlated to specific job duties and requirements. NurseTesting.com invites other Magnet hospitals to participate in this new validation process. Please contact Jame s Ostmann Sr, RN, MBA, at jim(AT)amistaff(DOT)com, for information on how to participate.
Amistaff, formerly Healthcare Testing, Inc., was founded in 2004 as the parent company of NurseTesting.com. Amistaff is currently integrating electronic signature software and medical staffing software to their product line in order to increase the effi ciency of hospitals' and healthcare staffing firms' human resource processes. Visit www.amistaff.com for additional information.
Georgetown University Hospital as part of Medstar Health represents one of the largest healthcare delivery networks in the region. Georgetow n University Hospital is consistently ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Georgetown is the first hospital in the District of Columbia to be awarded "Magnet Status" by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (AN CC).
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