Most-Read HR Executive Articles in Q4 2025

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Report Highlights Trends in Locum Tenens Clinician Utilization
   • Clinician care
   • The primary reason for using locum tenens clinicians remains filling open staff positions temporarily, but healthcare organizations are increasingly using locum tenens clinicians more strategically, according to CHG Healthcare.
2. Nursing Vacancies Are Skyrocketing. Mandated Ratios Are Filling the Power Vacuum.
   • Nurse staffing
   • A nurse staffing crisis has opened the door for lawmakers to dictate ratios. But will these mandates protect nurses and patients or push vulnerable hospitals past their breaking point?
3. HL Shorts: Factors At Play in Staffing Ratios
   • Staffing
   • Patient acuity makes determining staffing ratios more complex, says this CNE.
4. Hospitals Grappled With Rising Costs, Workforce Strain, and Reimbursement Pressures in 2025
   • Workforce strain
   • Kaufman Hall’s analysis spotlights the financial challenges that defined the year and the priorities shaping strategies for 2026.
5. How Benchmarks Are Essential When Determining Staffing Ratios
   • Nurse staffing
   • The major challenges with staffing nursing units come from both the nursing perspective and the patient perspective.