Line Activities Position In Healthcare Organizations: A Case Study

Line activity position actually perform an organization’s work, while staff activity departments facilitate the work, striving to enable overall efficiency and effectiveness (Nassar, 2007). Staff activity positions in a healthcare organization would include HR, and the environmental services staff. Staff activity positions are not directly advance the provision of services in a healthcare setting but if their duties are not performed, the patient care will eventually experience both inefficiencies and losses in quality of care (Nassar, 2007). Nurses and Patient Care Techs are lines activity position within a healthcare setting because jobs advances the work of the hospital. If the Nurses or the Patient Care Techs do not perform their jobs the
workflow of the hospital is immediately disrupted.