Shortage of physicians Hospital leaders have struggled to fill in these staffing gaps Physician shortages – and shortages of skilled healthcare worker – have been noted for a long time. This shortage impacts the ability of hospitals to recruit physicians and provide necessary healthcare services. This is particularly evident in selected specialties such as inpatient hospital and emergency care, such as surgery and orthopedics. It is also seen in locations which are less attractive to some physicians which includes rural area and low income areas. Nursing staff shortage The healthcare mangers face challenge to retain the medical and the paramedical staff. There are different strategies to retain nursing staff, which include the following: Allowing …show more content…
It’s increasingly important that nurses now be given chances to further enhance their skills. The facilities that can help them accomplish those tasks will not only see their operations improve from their more educated physician /nurses, but also earn some of their loyalty for facilitating their development. Population Health Management Challenges Over the past few years the term Population Health Management (PHM) has become a buzz-word also the concept is often unclearly defined and even less well understood. It has to manage in a manner which can make it safer, effective clinically, and more cost effective. It means applying strategies and interventions proactively to improve the overall health of the individuals with lowest necessary cost of the defined groups of individuals across the continuum of care.. Plenty of things make tackling with population health management a difficult task. The central issue is proper collection of data and its use. The emerging era of “pay for value” reform has left healthcare organizations to struggle to compile and structure the large quantities of data which is required for success. Whereas electronic medical records (EMRs) helps to get the raw clinical data for many big hospitals and physician practices, which makes that data accessible and usable – and reporting on the same– remains a puzzle for …show more content…
Balance experiential learning. The research indicates that the challenge of codifying and translating management knowledge leads to an over-reliance on experience and localised, situated knowledge and/or a tendency to privilege other forms of knowledge, such as clinical or financial. The evidence underlines the value of networks and other social modes of engagement to overcome these epistemic boundaries and assist the circulation of knowledge. Training and development programmes provided at trust level need to ensure a balance of emphasis on learning from experience with the use of more codified systems of knowledge that can effectively challenge received wisdom and accepted practices. Trusts need to be aware of the need to capture and share knowledge and learning that may be localised in specific parts of the organisation (e.g. tender bidding skills), such knowledge may be particularly important to generalise across trusts in the light of recent changes to the organisation of primary, secondary and tertiary health-care