Wyoming isn’t feeling the effects of the national nursing shortage as much as states such as Texas and Florida, but that doesn’t mean its hospitals are ignoring the issue.

Wyoming Medical Center in Casper is using recruitment and retention techniques to bring in competent nurses and keep the ones it has. Along with a new nurse recruiter, who is charged only with bringing in new, quality graduates, the hospital is using flexible scheduling and team nursing in its facility. In team nursing, several nurses share a group of patients in an effort to improve overall care.

Hospital administrators are also hoping to reduce on-call hours, alleviating the burn out that plagues so many nurses.

Sources: Casper Star-Tribune and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation