Question

Workforce Shortage

Click here to read the health care workforce shortage and its implications on America's hospitals, at the American Hospitals Association's (AHA) website.

Select a hospital, which is not more than two hours away from your place of residence. Based on your readings and understanding, create a 5- to 6-page report in a Microsoft Word document, that includes:

A plan for a rural, medium-sized hospital to deal with short- and long-term workforce shortages.

Your plan should include the following elements:

• Introduction
• Problem description of the healthcare workforce shortage and its implications

• • The aspects that need immediate attention and aspects that need long-term attention
  • Provide a rationale on why these aspects need attention
  • A description of the financial implications for these issues
• Evaluation of alternatives with an explanation of the risks associated with these problems
• Your recommendations to solve these problems
• An explanation of the methods to measure the success of the plan
• A description of the next steps, if the plan failed
• Conclusion
• Reference list

Answer 1

Q. No. 1. Answer :

Introduction :

Health care work force shortage means it is one of the big issue in the health care organizations, due to skilled staff retairing and skilled staff moving from one organization to another because to get better salaries with out replacing the staff in that organization.

So that there is a shortage of staff leads to decreased health care services are available to the consumers.

Q. No. 2. Answer :

Health care work force shortage and it's implications :

* due to this lack of health care services to the consumers.

* poor quality of care by shortage organizations.

* there will be a low productivity.

* negative effects on the organization like it is a not better hospital because of poor or shortage of staff.

* the remaining staff who are there they have to work long time may leads to stress to them leads to poor care providing to the patients.

* job dissatisfaction by staff.

* these environment leads to more medication errors, and mistakes committed by staff.

Q. No 3. Answer :

Need immediate attention like,

* recruitmentment of adequate staff according to the clients needed ratio.

* providing good salaries to the staff according to their work performance.

* providing job satisfaction to the staff.

* reduce work burden to them.

* support the staff in all areas.

Q. No. 4. Answer :

Above all aspects the organization must be keep attention then only they can satisfy the staff and reduces the shortage of health care professionals.

* and they can meet their organizational goals, by satisfying staff and retaining staff in their same institution.