Boost Employee Satisfaction with Effective Health Care Onboarding Software 

You already recognize that hiring is a time-consuming and costly process with a huge impact. If you’re looking for a health care onboarding software that can automate and yield better results, look no further.

Creative Health Care Insight offers a cloud-based platform designed with health care professionals for health care organizations. Here are the top needs we see health care teams and new hires have, and how our software equips you to address them.

What Does Your Health Care Team Need From Onboarding?

1. Onboarding Cost Reduction Strategies

Hiring is a significant investment of time and money. A systematic review published in 2022 found that the costs of replacing a nurse tend to range between $21,514 and $88,000 in the U.S. You can imagine how significantly that adds up across different staffing positions.

There are two buckets of cost that are key in measuring the financial impact of onboarding:

• Direct costs: salary, benefits, recruiting/headhunter fees, hiring bonuses
• Indirect costs: training time, new hire time to competency, productivity gaps for those trainings, administrative HR work

Figuring out how to reduce the indirect costs of hiring is key to an effective health care onboarding cost reduction strategy. To truly recoup your costs, a health care onboarding software is key for streamlining. A good tool will help you minimize administrative work and optimize role training.

How Does MyCHCI Support Onboarding Cost Reduction Strategies?

MyCHCI is a dual-pronged platform offering both a Competency Suite and a Professional Portfolio Suite. In the first part, you’ll find support with the initial and ongoing competency of new hires. The various components will help new members quickly rise to meet competency standards in their role.

In the latter, you’ll find a Professional Advancement Component with customizable career advancement features. It’ll have details into compensation, staffing gaps, and skills needed for the developmental trajectory of employees and your health care organization. And even more invaluable — you can easily review and verify documentation (plus it ties with DDCT® and ODF® reporting) to prevent rework where your team uploads previously collected information. 

Ultimately, the Competency Suite and Professional Portfolio Suite in MyCHCI are designed to reduce your team’s administrative burden from onboarding through the end of the employee’s life cycle.

2. Easy Ways of Tracking Onboarding Success Metrics

A 2024 study of tenure in hospital organizations found that out of all employees, close to 40% left within the first year. And when isolating the data to RNs, around 34% leave within the first year.

Streamlining your health care onboarding process starts by giving your managers and trainers the right data to help them identify issues early on that lead to new hire dissatisfaction. Ideally, your team has the full picture of key data points such as:

• Onboarding completion rates
• Turnover
• New hire satisfaction
• Time to competency
• Compliance completion
• Cost per hire
• Peer feedback

All this information can help the onboarding team identify weak processes or struggling new hires. And the right software will provide all of this in real-time, so preceptors are equipped to respond and achieve better new hire productivity across your health care team.

How Does MyCHCI Provide Tracking for Onboarding Success Metrics?

Since it’s a cloud-based software, MyCHCI offers a variety of custom reporting and real-time analytics, making it easier for your preceptors to measure a new hire’s progress. There are reports around competency, insights of individual employees, and team development reporting. All are designed to make it easy for your team to build out a path forward for new hires.

The Peer Feedback component within the Competency Suite also helps your management track a new hire’s success by collecting input from leadership, peer, and self-reflective assessments. This multi-level approach to feedback can help build a more collaborative environment and help a new team member connect with others. And having strong connections at work can boost business outcomes and lead to better employee retention in health care organizations.

3. New Hires Aligned with Your Strategic Goals

If you’re working toward national designations, like Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence®, you know everyone must be aligned in their daily work to make that happen. Health care employee orientation tools can’t be narrowly focused — they also need to introduce new hires to your culture and ensure their professional development aligns with your leadership team’s strategic vision.

Effective onboarding ensures these new members feel valued, supported, and equipped. And it ensures each new employee is aware of the organization’s goals and their role in achieving them. 

The right software supports these goals not just from day one but on an ongoing basis, making sure each team is accountable and taking the right competency steps to further those goals.

How Does MyCHCI Benefit Your Strategic Goals?

Manually tracking certifications and degrees for ANCC designations like Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® can be a huge drain of hours spent on administrative work. But MyCHCI’s Professional Portfolio Suite is designed to easily extract and document that information for you with efficient onboarding workflows and management systems.

The Demographic Data Collection Component simplifies the process of exporting the data needed for achieving these designations. That way your team can focus on the daily work that matters — providing top-level care for patients.

What Do Your New Hires Want in the Onboarding Process?

1. Onboarding That’s Personalized to Their Skills & Experience

Imagine experiencing training that’s not relevant. Perhaps it’s too general based on prior experience. Or it’s missing key information that applies to your daily responsibilities. Neither feels good as a new team member.

Tiered orientation models are a great way to provide more personalized onboarding for health care members, ensuring they get training that matches their skills and experience. A model using this approach could involve the following:

• Observation by the orientee
• Systematic review of a new hire’s progress
• Informal learning needs assessments
• Transitioning fundamental skills to more complex tasks

A study of how tiered orientation models affect new hire confidence found benefits such as cost savings, increased confidence, and reduced orientation length. And while that study didn’t focus as much on cost, the team referenced a separate cost study that found using a tiered orientation structure saved around $5,300 per new graduate nurse and $2,050 for a more experienced one.

How Does MyCHCI Provide Personalized Learning?

The Competency Suite helps you customize onboarding so you can truly equip each team member with the precise information they need. Training can be customized by departments, teams, and individuals, based on your organization’s exact needs.

Within this suite, the Initial Competency component makes it easy to enhance your orientation process with either a traditional or a tiered orientation model. This ensures that new hires get training that’s as relevant as possible to match their prior experience.

Employees are also empowered beyond their onboarding because MyCHCI seamlessly integrates with The Wright Competency Assessment Model™. (In fact, it’s the only competency platform on the market designed to support The Wright Competency Assessment Model™.) This approach is designed to give employees ownership and responsibility around their ongoing training so they continue getting maximum value out of it. 

2. Learning That’s Timely & Efficient

A study of health care professionals and CME administrators found that 68% of the staff preferred having microlearning because of its flexibility. Digital microlearning for health care, which is just short/focused training in digital formats, is clearly favored by a majority of workers.

Access to digital microlearning empowers your new hires to do training when it fits their schedule and take ownership over some of their onboarding. It’s easy to access across different devices and on the go. Plus, with digital microlearning you can offer more diverse formats for training, ultimately making it more engaging.

How Does MyCHCI Provide Digital Microlearning for Health Care?

Our Competency Suite is built to facilitate all types of learning including:

All of these learning formats make it easy to standardize onboarding, but also even lead to more efficient management of employee learning beyond initial training.

3. Opportunities for Growth & Professional Development

A recent study found junior faculty members who participated in a developmental program were 11% more likely to remain at the same organization than those who didn’t. The study also saw a trend of younger employees placing high value on professional development.

Ensuring you offer these opportunities won’t just help with employee retention across your health care organization. It can also benefit your overall goals, as it gives you a way to forecast and develop the right talent to achieve them.

How Does MyCHCI Support Professional Development In Health Care?

The Professional Portfolio Suite streamlines the tracking of education and certifications without requiring re-uploading, making it easy for employees and leaders. Plus, the Professional Advancement Component within the suite will make it easy to customize, manage, and track career advancement, compensation, and achievements. All of which can help your employees grow and find satisfaction in the work they do with you.

Get Started With the Best Health Care Onboarding Software

MyCHCI is a powerful all-in-one platform that supports you with health care onboarding software. But it also goes beyond that, giving you a way to also automate and easily manage employees beyond their first ninety days. MyCHCI makes it seamless for you by offering:

• Access that’s ultra-secure from any web-connected device
• Tools to enhance retention, engagement, quality, and safety
• Automation to deliver significant cost savings
• Support and real-time tracking for key designations
• Integration with your LMS of choice

If you’re ready to transform your new hire experience, see what this top health care onboarding software can do with a free demo.