Nurse Staffing
Cover Every Open Nursing Shift
Post the shifts you need covered and get them filled quickly by credentialed nurses nearby. No lengthy contracts.
Post a Shift
Find nurses nearby at short notice
Pick Up a Shift
Looking for nursing shifts near you?
Over 6,500 workplaces and 1 million workers across the U.S. use Clipboard.
Simpler and Faster Than a Nurse Staffing Agency
Fast Coverage
Post at short notice and reach nurses who are free that day.
Clear Credentials
Every nurse’s license is checked before they can pick up your shift.
Familiar Faces
Nurses who know your floor come back to your shifts, with nothing for you to arrange.
Fast Coverage
Post at short notice and reach nurses who are free that day.
Clear Credentials
Every nurse’s license is checked before they can pick up your shift.
Familiar Faces
Nurses who know your floor come back to your shifts, with nothing for you to arrange.
Nurse Staffing Without Long-Term Contracts
Clipboard is a staffing marketplace built for shifts that come up at short notice. Facilities in long-term care, hospitals, infusion suites and hospice use it to cover nursing work directly.
You post a nursing shift for the role, date and time you need, and a nurse already vetted by Clipboard picks it up. You don’t approve anyone, and you don’t pay anything until the shift is staffed.
Every nurse comes with verified credentials and a record of shifts behind them. If someone doesn’t turn up, we connect you with a replacement at no extra cost.
Handle everything from your phone in the Clipboard Nurse Staffing App.
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Shifts covered when posted a day ahead
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Shifts covered by someone you’ve worked with
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How to Book a Temporary Nurse
No upfront costs. Cancel a shift any time before it starts.
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 Nursing Shifts Filled
See every worker's info and qualifications in one place. We do the rest, from scheduling to documentation to payment.
Transparent Pricing
No Booking or Cancellation Fee
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
Nursing rates for your area are shown up front, before a shift goes out.
You pay for the hours worked on shifts that get staffed. Nothing is charged for posting a shift, canceling one, or if a nurse cancels.
Are You a Nurse 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 Nurse Staffing Coverage
Clipboard is used by facilities across the country. Post a shift anywhere and it goes to the credentialed professionals nearest you.
Clipboard support is so wonderful. Always helpful and always accommodating.
Michelle, Staffing Coordinator · New Jersey
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The Easiest Way to Fill Shifts
With Clipboard, your shifts go out to a range of credentialed nurses 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 |
How Nurse Staffing Works in a Facility
Temporary nurse staffing brings in nurses shift by shift, rather than by adding to your permanent roster. You book the hours you are short, the nurse works them, and you add no permanent line to your budget.
Most buildings run temporary or per diem nurse staffing alongside their own team rather than instead of it. The regular roster carries the week and temporary nurses cover what it cannot: a call out, an open line on nights, a stretch of leave.
What Nurse Staffing Covers
An open line on nights or weekends can take months to recruit for, and doubles are what usually cover it meanwhile. Post the nights as a run and they tend to be picked up quickly, taking the pressure off the team holding the line.
When your census climbs or a unit comes back online, the extra hours are real but temporary. Book nurses for the weeks you need them and stop when the numbers settle, with no long-term contract to add unnecessary costs.
Nurse Staffing Across Care Settings
Nursing shifts are posted by skilled nursing buildings, hospitals, infusion suites and hospice teams, to name a few. Wherever it happens, a nursing call out leaves a shift that still has to be worked and a phone list that has run dry. Post it on Clipboard and licensed nurses nearby see it straight away.
Fill telemetry, step-down and ED gaps without spending the morning vetting strangers. Clipboard verifies every license before the shift can be accepted, so you get on with the unit instead of checking paperwork.
Keep infusion chairs running when a nurse is out. Put the session up the day you know it’s uncovered, and the day’s treatments still go ahead on time.
A hospice nurse works a caseload of visits rather than a building, so one absence moves several families’ appointments in a day. Post the days you need covered and families keep the visits they were expecting, with no rebooking to wait for.
What Our Expert Says
A call out at six in the morning used to mean working down a phone list and hoping somebody picked up. That has changed. Last-minute nurses are much easier to find than they were, as long as you know where to post the shift. The buildings that cope best are the ones with somewhere to send a gap the moment it appears.
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 Open Nursing Shifts
Get your nursing shifts filled. No upfront cost and no minimum commitment.
Cover Your Open Nursing Shifts
Get your nursing shifts filled. No upfront cost and no minimum commitment.
Fast Answers To
Frequently Asked Questions
You post a shift and it goes straight to qualified professionals near you. 95% of shifts are covered when posted a day in advance, and you can post same-day shifts whenever you need last-minute cover.
You pay a flat hourly rate for the role you booked, and posting or canceling a shift costs nothing. Rates reflect local pay, so they differ by area. There’s no minimum commitment.
RNs and LPN/LVNs, and CNAs where your building books them on the same post. Licenses and certifications are verified ahead of time, so the nurse who arrives is cleared for the work.
An agency holds the credentials and adds a markup on top of the rate. On Clipboard the credentials are checked for you, you pay a flat hourly rate, and there’s no term contract to sign.
We connect you with a replacement at no extra cost as soon as we know. If a professional cancels ahead of the shift, a replacement is found automatically. If the shift can’t be filled, you’re not charged for it.
Identity and license are checked before a professional can pick up a shift. All of that happens before your shift goes out, so there’s no vetting left for you to do.
Most of the time, yes. 85% of shifts are covered by someone that building has worked with before, because Clipboard offers your shifts to nurses who know your building ahead of anyone new.
Yes. If a nurse is a good fit for your team, 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.
Long-term care and skilled nursing, hospitals, infusion settings and hospice all book nursing shifts on Clipboard. Depth varies by area, so the quickest check is to post a shift and see who is available near you.
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.