Nurse Staffing Solutions (NSS) is primarily a nurse staffing agency looking at the root causes of a growing nursing shortage.
Because there are many reasons for the decreasing workforce, there are many creative solutions for reversing the problem. NSS combines innovation, technology, and years of experience to improve and make more efficient the nursing assistant training experience.
Engaging teens in virtual nursing education, providing safe spaces for learning technical skills, and building tutoring and exam preparation into the curriculum increases post-pandemic student success, increase the future nurse staffing pool, and improves access to a traditionally gated profession. In addition, engaging nurse managers and teams in virtual equity and anti-racist training increases new staff recruitment, diversity, andretention.
NSS was founded with the belief that providing teens with equal access to nursing training while actively interrupting inequity and racism are upstream solutions to improving the nurse staffing shortage. This staffing agency does more than recruit; we make nursing better.
Vision
The Nurse Staffing Solutions’ VISION is equitable access to healthcare training and staffing opportunities.
Mission
The Nurse Staffing Solutions (NSS) MISSION is to provide accessible and equitable employment and training opportunities for a sustainable Training-to-Employment pipeline within the healthcare communities of the United States by:
Creating more healthcare entry-level job opportunities for young adults.
Creating online training programs accessible to all students who desire to enter the healthcare field regardless of socioeconomic status, zip code, shared ancestry, ethnicity, gender, ability, religion, or national origin.
Improving diversity and retention in nursing and healthcare through training, mentoring, and coaching individuals (or groups of) students, facilities, and organizations that can benefit from guest lecturer workshops on Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI), and anti-racism in nursing.
Reducing the national nurse staffing shortage with direct-entry options for high school graduates and non-traditional students.
Improving the academic and professional trajectory of students who experienced high school during and after the pandemic requires more academic support.
Providing newly graduated and established healthcare professionals the option to work for a Black-, veteran-, woman-owned nurse-built company that stands by their employees and supports them to overcome the burdens of burnout and racial stress experienced through implicit bias, microaggressions, micro-invalidations, or blatant bigotry.
We Hire. We Train. We educate so that you may retain.
Question: What is the business about? Is it staffing, training, or diversity advocacy?
Answer: All of them. Improving diversity in any field improves the pool and productivity of the workforce. Educating nurse managers on equity, inclusion, and creating a work environment that is accessible, respectful, and comfortable for BIPOC people increases recruitment and retention. Staffing development is a given need. However, when everyone is competing for the same nurses rather than creating more nurses, growth is not optimal.
Facilities: Do you have sustainable recruitment in place? You hire, we train. NSS is accredited and certified:
American Heart Association (AHA) CPR Training Site (BLS, CPR, First Aid, AED)
Department of Social & Health Sciences (DSHS) Community Instructor (HCA, Specialty Training, Dementia, Mental Health, Nursing Delegation, Orientation & Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury)
American Red Cross Nurse Assistant Training (NAT/CNA) Provider
NSS is a Veteran, Woman, and Minority-Owned Business focused on improving the nurse staffing workforce through equitable staffing opportunities, accessible training for CPR, HCA, & CNA certification, and DEI Corporate Training for frontline staff development.
About Our Founder
Chisula Chambers, MPH, BSN, RN is an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse by trade and an educator by passion. Chisula has been a professional nurse for over 17 years, practicing quality, compassion, respect, dignity, and equity. One notable project reflective of this commitment is her curriculum development and delivery on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) at the University of Washington, calling nurses to action in anti-racism. In 2018, Miss Chambers took her years of field experience and returned to the classroom. As faculty of the Africana Studies Department at Eastern Washington University, she has developed and taught courses to instill those values into future professionals. “Chi” is pushing past barriers, creating a curriculum for accessible nursing training, and establishing herself as a Director of Nursing Training for Nurse Staffing Solutions PLLC.Instructor credentials include American Heart Association CPR Instructor, DSHS Contracted Community Instructor and American Red Cross Nurse Assistant Training provider.Miss Chambers enjoys traveling and dreams of building clinics throughout Africa with her non-profit organization. When she is not working, she enjoys dancing and exploring new cultures and destinations of the world.