Nursing Home Staffing
Cover Long-Term Care and Nursing Home Shifts
Post the tours you need covered and get them filled quickly by CNAs and nurses nearby. No lengthy contracts.
Post a Shift
Find CNAs and nurses near your building at short notice
Pick Up a Shift
Looking for nursing home shifts near you?
Over 6,500 workplaces and 1 million workers across the U.S. use Clipboard.
Simpler and Faster Than a Nursing Home Staffing Agency
Fast Coverage
Post at short notice and the tour goes straight to CNAs and nurses nearby.
Clear Credentials
Credentials are checked for you before anyone works your tour.
Familiar Faces
Get the same faces back on the same tour most of the time, without asking.
Fast Coverage
Post at short notice and the tour goes straight to CNAs and nurses nearby.
Clear Credentials
Credentials are checked for you before anyone works your tour.
Familiar Faces
Get the same faces back on the same tour most of the time, without asking.
Long-Term Care Staffing Without Long-Term Contracts
Clipboard is a nursing home staffing marketplace built for shifts that come up at short notice. Skilled nursing and long-term care teams use it to book per diem CNAs and nurses.
You post the tour and hours you need, and a certified CNA or nurse picks it up. You don’t have to choose or approve who comes in, and you pay nothing until the shift is staffed.
If someone doesn’t turn up, we connect you with a replacement at no extra cost.
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Shifts covered by someone you’ve worked with
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How to Book Nursing Home and Long-Term Care Staff
Create Your Shifts
Select the role, date, and time that you need support.
Get Matched with a Worker
Your shifts are automatically shared with workers who have the right qualifications.
Your Tours Filled
See every worker's info and qualifications in one place. We do the rest, from scheduling to documentation to payment.
Transparent Pricing
Free to Post a Shift
No Minimum Commitment
If They Don’t Turn Up, We Connect You With Another
We put your shift out again at no extra cost. If the shift isn’t filled, it isn’t charged.
Dependable Hourly Rates With No Surprises
See the hourly rates for each role in your area before you post.
You pay for the hours worked on shifts that get staffed, and posting a shift is free. If you want to hire a professional you’ve booked, there’s no placement fee.
Are You a CNA, LPN or RN Looking for Shifts?
Sign up free, upload your credentials once, and see the open shifts at facilities near you. Pick up what fits your week and get paid as quickly as the same day.
Free to Join
Sign up and upload your credentials at no cost.
Your Schedule
Pick up only the shifts that fit your week.
Fast Pay
Get paid the same day for a small fee.
Areas Covered
Nationwide Long-Term Care Staffing
Clipboard is used by facilities across the country. Post a shift anywhere and it goes to the credentialed professionals nearest you.
All of your nurses have been absolutely amazing, and we could not do what we do today without them. All of your nurses I would allow to take care of my mom.
Ivy, DON · Long-Term Care
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The Easier Way to Fill Shifts
With Clipboard, you have access to a range of credentialed CNAs, LPNs, LVNs and RNs in your area who are available at short notice. There’s no agency markup and no in-house bank to manage.
| Measure | Clipboard | Agency | In-house bank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commitment | None required | Term contract | Internal policy |
| Cost structure | Clear hourly rate | Percentage markup | Overtime and admin |
| Compliance checks | Verified by Clipboard | Held by the agency | Yours to run |
| Cover if no-show | Connect you with a replacement | You chase it | Yours |
What Is Long-Term Care?
Long-term care is ongoing nursing and personal care for people who can no longer live safely on their own, usually in a nursing home. Many nursing homes also run a skilled nursing side for short-stay rehab patients leaving the hospital, so the terms nursing home, long-term care facility and skilled nursing facility often describe the same building.
What Is Long-Term Care Staffing?
Long-term care staffing is how a building fills open tours with RNs, LPNs, LVNs and CNAs when its own schedule falls short, so residents get the care their plans call for on days, evenings and nights. What each professional may do varies by state and by building.
What Long-Term Care Staffing Covers
Post-acute residents arrive from the hospital needing skilled nursing and therapy from their first day, often at short notice. Book the extra tour as soon as the transfer is set, and the unit isn’t stretched to absorb it.
Vacation weeks, public holidays and planned leave are gaps you can see coming well ahead. Booking per diem CNAs and nurses for those dates lets your regular team take time off without the schedule running short while they’re away.
During a flu or COVID outbreak, staff call out sick at the same time some residents need to be kept apart with a team of their own. Post the extra tours once the plan is set, and nearby professionals can pick them up.
Who Covers What in a Nursing Home
Most nursing home shifts are covered by one of six roles. What each role may do varies by state and by building.
| Role | What they cover in a nursing home |
|---|---|
| CNA | Bathing, dressing, meals and resident rounds on the hall |
| LPN or LVN | Medications, treatments and wound care, within state rules |
| RN | Assessments, care plans and nursing supervision |
| PT or PTA | Mobility and strength therapy for rehab and long-stay residents |
| SLP | Swallowing, diet texture and communication therapy |
| RT or RTA | Ventilator, trach and breathing care on vent units |
Nursing Home Staffing by Building Type
Long-term care covers buildings with very different residents and very different staffing plans. A skilled nursing wing that turns over rehab patients every few weeks needs a different mix on each tour from a long-stay home where residents may live for years, or from a vent unit for residents on breathing support.
Residents who live in the building for years notice who walks onto their hall. When most tours are picked up by people the building has worked with before, residents and their families keep seeing faces they recognize.
Subacute units take higher-acuity patients with a heavy therapy load, from complex wound care to daily physical therapy and speech sessions. Cover nursing and therapy gaps together, so rehab sessions keep running while your own team is out. See Physical Therapist Staffing and SLP Staffing
Vent and trach units look after residents on long-term breathing support, usually with nursing and respiratory therapy on each tour. When an RT or nurse calls out, post the tour straight away and it goes to licensed staff nearby. See Respiratory Therapist and RTA Staffing
What Our Expert Says
Nursing home staffing is as much about your own team as the open tour. Every double shift and mandatory overtime wears down the people you most want to keep, so using per diem cover for the gaps protects your regulars’ days off and helps keep them in the building.
Legal
Insurance and Employment Status
Cover shifts at short notice, knowing each one is insured, the professional is credentialed, and no one joins your payroll.
Insurance
Shifts booked through Clipboard are covered by professional and general liability insurance.
Employment Status
Professionals are independent and choose which shifts to accept. They are not employed by your facility or by Clipboard.
Cover Your Nursing Home Shifts
Get your nursing home shifts filled. No upfront cost and no minimum commitment.
Cover Your Nursing Home Shifts
Get your nursing home shifts filled. No upfront cost and no minimum commitment.
Fast Answers To
Frequently Asked Questions
You post a shift and it goes straight to CNAs and nurses near you. 95% of shifts are covered when posted a day in advance, and you can post a same-day shift when a tour comes up short before it starts.
Often it’s the same building. A skilled nursing facility is the Medicare-certified side that takes short-stay rehab patients, while long-term care covers residents who live there. Many nursing homes run both under one roof and one plan.
You pay an hourly rate for the role you booked, and it costs nothing to post a shift. Rates reflect local pay, so they differ by area, and there’s no minimum commitment for the tours you post.
We connect you with a replacement at no extra cost as soon as we know. If a CNA or nurse cancels ahead of the shift, a replacement is looked for automatically. If the shift can’t be filled, you’re not charged for it.
Credentials are checked before a CNA, LPN, LVN or RN can take a tour. None of that lands on your desk, so the time you’d otherwise spend vetting goes back to your residents and the floor.
Yes. Post holiday and vacation tours as soon as the dates are set, weeks ahead if you like, and per diem CNAs and nurses close by will see them. Planned gaps posted early give more people time to pick them up before the date.
Yes. Skilled nursing rehab books physical therapists, PTAs and SLPs to keep therapy sessions running while your own therapist is out. See Physical Therapist Staffing and SLP Staffing for how therapy shifts work on Clipboard.
Yes. You can post one tour, day, evening or night, for an LPN, LVN or RN, with no minimum number of shifts and nothing to sign. Post a run of tours when you’re covering a vacancy, leave or a holiday week.
Yes. If a CNA or nurse is a good fit for your building, you can offer them a permanent role. There’s no placement fee and no conversion fee for making the offer, and the professional decides whether to accept.
Reviewed by
Alex Dettmer
Head of Worker Experience, Clipboard
Alex heads our Worker Experience team, responsible for millions of daily interactions between nurses across the country and Clipboard. When he’s not working to create the best possible experience for workplaces, professionals, and patients, he’s fiercely defending how Walter’s Hot Dogs in New York has the best encased meat in the country.