Our Story
“As the CEO of Nurses Pro we looked at the whole business
model of the travel nursing industry decided to do things a bit differently,”
says Aftab. “It is our vision to focus on RN professionals as our number
one clientele rather than just another recruit for the healthcare facility.
This time around we want to actually help the talent get its due.”
As the son of a physician, Nurses Pro founder and CEO
Kashif Aftab always found himself around nurses. Whether watching them care
for a sick child, administer a vaccination, or assist in the OR, he was
always aware of the important role they played in the world of medicine.
In 2003, Kashif was running a successful $6 million/year I.T. consulting firm, an
industry that traditionally pays its consultants only a fraction of the rate that
the company bills its clients. Viewing that pay structure as “unfair” and “greedy,”
he instituted a payment structure that he felt was fairer to his employees—he paid
them 70% of their billing rate if he found them the work, and 80% if the consultants
found their own work but used the consulting firm as the administrative backbone.
He found that this method of compensation resulted in happier, more productive,
and more loyal employees than he had ever had before.
In 2003, he had an important realization: he could apply to the world of nursing
some of the same principles that helped make his I.T. business successful. When
he began to do research and talked directly to nurses, he found that even though
there was a critical shortage of nurses, the hardworking nurses on the front lines
were not being paid their due. He started Nurses Pro to help even the playing field
for nurses, while also helping to fill the overwhelming needs of healthcare delivery
organizations through contract travel nursing.
