As the sun peaks over the Wasatch mountains onto Salt Lake County, a 2007 Chevrolet truck sits quietly in the Nursa parking lot. Overlooking the reliable pickup that has carried him over 210,000 miles, the CEO and founder of a booming tech start-up has already been working in his office for a couple of hours.
Curtis Anderson feels he does his best work between the hours of 5 a.m. and 1 p.m. “Mornings are really important to me, sacred even. It’s a great way to ensure that every day has the chance to be the most valuable contribution one can make to their life at any given time.” While Curtis does his best work in the morning, he has no expectation for others to work early hours. When employees occasionally arrive before Curtis, they receive an energetic welcome as he strides to his office.
Connect. Fill a shift. Improve a life.
Consider the last time you were in a hospital and thought to yourself, “This place is really overcrowded with nurses today.” Not recently.
The unfortunate reality of our current healthcare system is that staff’s schedules are a formula for exhaustion and stress. As clinicians experience burnout, facilities are left struggling to fill critical staffing needs.
Curtis has seen this issue consistently worsen. He bought a traditional staffing agency and leveraged his love of IT and entrepreneurship to start Nursa in 2020.
(Nursa) | Nursa Community Appreciation Event in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Nursa is a two-sided marketplace app that connects ready to work clinicians to facilities with per diem or short term staffing needs. Registered nurses (RN), certified nursing assistants (CNA), and licensed practical nurses (LPN) are able to request shifts, once their credentials are verified, ensuring compliance while improving patient health.
Posting a shift on Nursa is free. Facilities only pay for the hours worked after the shift is completed. No subscription or long term contract is required.
For clinicians, requesting and filling a shift is easy. Features include clearly displayed pay rates and the ability to search by location. Simply tap to request a shift.
A career-defining workplace.
In his small hometown of Gooding, Idaho, Curtis learned to make his own fun - including how much he could creatively design. Nursa’s CEO is humble and influential as he strives to ensure employee contributions fulfill the company’s mission.
“I am more naturally predisposed to test.” Curtis stated, “Being from a small community gave me a chance to test and try things at a rate of speed that I just would not have had elsewhere. There is no shame in failure.”
(Nursa) | Nursa employees at a Colorado Healthcare Administrator Conference.
Nursa has created a career-defining workplace through four Nursa Values. These standards do not sit idle as decoration on a break room wall. Rather, they are woven into daily decisions and strategy.
Execution Is Everything. Nursa boomed from 50 to 200 employees in a period of 9 months because of the standards for planning and delivering on action.
While many tech start-ups focus on unlimited lunches, expensive swag, and shortened work weeks to attract top talent, Nursa has taken a different approach. Employees are held accountable for their progress both as individual contributors and as a team. As success is achieved, employees feel the deep satisfaction of their knowledge and experience expanding.
Relationships Matter. Treating all people (inside and out of the company) with the highest of standards is essential to sustained growth. Curtis leads by example in developing and maintaining professional relationships.
He is known to give high-fives and a salutation of “Friends!” as he passes groups of employees in the office. He recently posted on LinkedIn stating how Nursa is bigger than himself. Curtis’ example continues with investors, prospective clients, and potential team members as his contagious passion engulfs and drives buy-in to support the company’s future.
(Nursa) | Curtis Anderson’s (CEO and founder of Nursa) photo from a recent LinkedIn post.
Act Intelligently. Recently, Jared Roberts, Head of Strategy, explained in a company meeting that Nursa cannot rely on the “golden gut’ attribute. Exclusively riding the notion of flawless instincts or uncanny intuition is not sustainable for any company - especially at a company like Nursa.
Instead, Nursa focuses on using data to formulate plans and objectives. This is evident as departments collaborate regarding completed clinician hours. Data is leveraged to decide which new markets are entered and how to onboard additional working professionals onto the app.
Be Curious. Simply put - seek to learn, ask good questions, and push the boundaries for what the team is capable of.
Ideas and backgrounds come from across the world as employees work in over 27 countries such as Australia, Brazil, and Poland. This uniquely diverse team is continually striving to grow together as new perspectives culminate to provide the best product for healthcare facilities and clinicians.
(Nursa) | International representation of the 200 employees across the world.
“I love the premise of being challenged. I love the feeling of growth and I would like to share that,” says Curtis.
Nursa’s aim is to become the most reliable and utilized staffing app in the nation - almost as reliable as Curtis’ trusted Chevy.