Now Hiring: Addressing Staffing Challenges in Imaging Services

Kim Evans, CRA, MS, RT, Vice President of Imaging Services, Christiana Care
Luann Culbreth, CRA, FAHRA, Director, Clinical Operations, Healthtrust
Nanci Wozniak, RT(N), CNMT, Senior Director of Clinical Education Services, Siemens Medical Solutions USA

Staffing with enough well-trained, productive, and fully engaged individuals is essential to any successful imaging services operation. COVID-19 has impacted our ability to engage, retain, and find adequate and qualified staffing support. Shortages are contributing to burnout, increasing the stress level and potential for resignation of top-performing team members. In this panel discussion, experts from a variety of imaging operations will review the real-life challenges leaders face in today’s staffing shortages; from vaccine mandates, resignations, and retirements to best practices with “all hands on deck” of clinical vs. non-clinical staff, flexible scheduling, leveraging part-time opportunities, and process improvement. Bring your questions for this lively and instructive panel.

You will learn to:
• Recognize the challenges facing the workforce in medical imaging.
• Understand opportunities to engage team-members and avoid burnout.
• Establish best practices for attracting and retaining talent.