title: Measuring competencies of temporary staff.
abstract: Strategic staffing requires an understanding of a new model, what Charles Handy has named the "Shamrock Organizational Model," in which you have three equally valuable groups of staff a minimal core of full-time staff; a short-term contingency workforce; and a supplemental workforce for long-range temporary staffing needs. Ensuring the competency of all three is a nontransferable, although shared, responsibility of both the hospital and the supplemental staffing company.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shaffer
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kobs
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003284:Contract Services; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000592:standards*