Episode Details

Recruiting an experienced registered nurse in the United States takes an average of 83 days. For a regional health network running four hospitals and a dozen clinics, that timeline is not an administrative inconvenience — it is a patient safety crisis. With a U.S. nursing shortage exceeding 250,000 RNs and 65% of hospitals already operating at reduced capacity, one regional health system found a structural solution: OVI's AI-assisted interviews. By handling the early screening stage at any hour, OVI created capacity that overwhelmed nurse managers simply could not provide. The result: time-to-hire dropped from 83 days to 12. This episode breaks down how the bottleneck formed, why clinical expertise was being wasted on first-round screening, and what the math looks like when AI creates the capacity for human judgment to focus where it actually matters.