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Busting 5 Locum Tenens Staffing Myths

With the staffing shortage reaching historic levels, it makes sense that healthcare facilities have increasingly turned to locum tenens agencies: With their pools of ready-to-work […]

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Negotiating Compensation Requirements: Get the Locum Tenens Salary You Want

Both new and seasoned healthcare professionals feel some level of uneasiness dealing with the business aspects of a job offer. We’re giving individuals by nature, […]

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Our Picks: 6 Best Mental Health Blogs and Sites to Follow

At Barton Associates, one of our top priorities is placing psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in fulfilling roles at care facilities across the U.S. Beyond that, […]

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What Is a Well-Rounded Provider? 4 Qualities to Consider in Your Locum Tenens Candidates

When recruiting in healthcare, it can be easy to look for candidates with the right degree — and stop your search there. Does she have […]

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When to Hire an DO vs. an MD for Your Facility [INFOGRAPHIC]

This National Doctors’ Day, we want to make it easy for you to not only hire a doctor, but find the best possible candidate for […]

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What Is Locum Tenens? A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Facilities

What is locum tenens? As a service model, the practice’s earliest iterations have a history long and storied enough to match some of our nation’s […]

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Locum Tenens for Dentists [INFOGRAPHIC]

Happy National Dentist’s Day! We’re thrilled to celebrate dentists everywhere, today and every day. Yes, Barton Associates places physicians, NPs, PAs, and CRNAs, but did […]

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4 Burnout Symptoms in Healthcare Employees

By this point, burnout and efforts to prevent it are as common in the healthcare industry as stethoscopes and syringes. Unlike stethoscopes, however, burnout has […]

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Can a CRNA Do That? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Happy National CRNA Week 2022! Here at Barton Associates, we’d like to thank the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) for sponsoring this exciting week […]

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Improving Cultural Diversity in the PA Profession

The lack of ethnic diversity among medical students and physicians, and the importance of matching the ethnicities of providers with their patients, has been a […]

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5 Things You Should Know About Becoming a Doctor

Editor’s Note: Updated June 2019 Sometimes, common beliefs about what it’s like working as a physician are true — long hours, lost sleep, and high […]

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How NPs and PAs Can Avoid Stagnant Salaries: 6 Strategies

It’s National NP Week! Thank you to nurse practitioners across the profession for your hard work and dedication to healthcare. We here at Barton Associates […]

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