Our Strategic Alliances

• AcuStaf

AcuStaf is the most comprehensive Automated Scheduling, Staffing, & Labor Management system to meet your organizations needs. AcuStaf provides six critical business solutions: personnel scheduling, daily staffing, education and credential tracking, full system integration to HR, workload and finance systems, payroll and/or T&A automation, and labor management variance reporting. AcuStaf ensures single source data entry and "REAL TIME" analysis and reporting.


• Jean Watson: Human Caring Theory and Certificate Program

Caring science encompasses a humanitarian, human science orientation to human caring processes, phenomena and experiences. Caring science includes arts and humanities as well as science. Caring science investigations embrace inquiries that are reflective, subjective and interpretative as well as objective-empirical.


• Consultants Consortium

The Consultant's Consortium is an association of health care consultants, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are committed to transform health care, to market services and build a virtually supported and streamlined business infrastructure.


• The Katherine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership

The Densford Center seeks to improve health and health care worldwide through the education, collaboration and promotion of nurses as strong leaders and effective partners. As both a think tank and action center, we foster nursing leadership and promote the nursing profession through a variety of programs, services and forums.


• Health Care Environment Inc.

Health Care Environment is a company owned and operated by nurses who have developed unique research methods to define the work environment of the staff nurse at both the aggregate and unit level. Validity, reliability, presentation of the data and on-line support facilitate judgment and decision-making for those who are striving to improve the work environment of the staff nurse.


• The PathStones Group

PathStones Group believes that health care organizations achieve peak performance when their employees recognize and accept who they really are, maximize their innate strengths, and enhance their ability to work with others.


• Solinform

Nurse Informatics (University of Iowa; NIC/NOC)


• Strategic People Development

Strategic People Development, LLC, provides consulting and seminars in managing change, motivation, strategic planning, team effectiveness, facilitation skills, and creative brainstorming. Strategic People Development bases its work on the principle that an energizing, affirming, and nurturing work environment results in achievement of organizational goals and maximizes employee retention and patient satisfaction.


• University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing

The University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing is a national leader in integrative medicine. The Center provides interdisciplinary education, outreach and patient services and integrates evidence-based research in order to renew, enhance - and transform - healthcare practice, health sciences education and patient care.


• Mindjet

Mindjet Corporation, the leading provider of software for visualizing and managing information, provides applications for business teams to think together, plan together, and work together. MindManager, the company’s award-winning flagship product with more than 500,000 licenses sold worldwide, is productivity software designed for business professionals working as individuals or in teams at Global 2000 companies.


• Management Resource Group

Management Research Group is an international firm that specializes in assessment-based human resource development. We are a leader in creating high-quality assessment tools for selection and development in the areas of leadership, management, career development, personal growth and sales force effectiveness.


• Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice
  With a reputation for excellence throughout the UK, Ireland and USA, the Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice supports individuals, teams and organizations to meet the challenges and make the breakthroughs necessary to deliver a high quality service. In November, 2005, CDHPP celebrated 100,000 participants taking part their Leading Empowered Organizations program.



• Compass Group
  Compass Group delivers customized consulting by senior health professionals in integratable service lines dealing with interim healthcare management, margin improvement, accreditation and compliance services, executive and leadership services, and clinical excellence.



• Visioning HealthCare
  The mission of Visioning HealthCare is to create and deliver programs that equip nurses and other healthcare professionals with the skills to be able to meet the challenges of today's ever changing healthcare culture. Our programs are full of practical hints and tips that will help those that attend to become more proficient in their roles and to grow professionally and personally.