The Healthcare Workforce
The Health Care Work Force
A Proposal
Felicia Brockett
HCA 305
Instructor Valencia Beckett
June 10, 2013
I. Work Force Supply: a. Identify methods to maintain the continuing competency of the workforce.
II. Work Environment: a. Create and disseminate resources that develop and maintain optimal employee relationships, especially as it relates to labor issues.
III. Future Care Models: a. Address team training as an essential component for the delivery of care.
The Health Care Work Force
A Proposal
The Healthcare Workforce accounts for the greatest proportion of spending and holds the key to quality of Healthcare delivery (WHO 2000) America’s five million health care professionals directly influence the cost and quality of health care through their diagnoses, orders, prescriptions, and treatments. These primary care and specialist physicians, dentists, nurses, and other medical and dental assistants labor every day to take care of their patients, but experts say there are too few of them today, and by 2020 there will be a shortage of up to 200,000 physicians and 1 million nurses. Rural Americans and those living in other underserved areas across the country are especially vulnerable to these current and growing health workforce shortages. We must begin to look at our Health Care Work Force and examine all Healthcare delivery at the national and international levels.
I propose that we as a nation begin to look at the Health Care Work Force as a start in moving in the direction of the changing healthcare industry. I propose changing the workforce supply, like providing proper resources; work environment, creating an excellent work environment; and looking at future care models where we can work effectively avoid shortages and increase demand. By improving communications between patients and their providers, peers and computerized health applications we will have the potential to drastically improve access to many types
A Proposal
Felicia Brockett
HCA 305
Instructor Valencia Beckett
June 10, 2013
I. Work Force Supply: a. Identify methods to maintain the continuing competency of the workforce.
II. Work Environment: a. Create and disseminate resources that develop and maintain optimal employee relationships, especially as it relates to labor issues.
III. Future Care Models: a. Address team training as an essential component for the delivery of care.
The Health Care Work Force
A Proposal
The Healthcare Workforce accounts for the greatest proportion of spending and holds the key to quality of Healthcare delivery (WHO 2000) America’s five million health care professionals directly influence the cost and quality of health care through their diagnoses, orders, prescriptions, and treatments. These primary care and specialist physicians, dentists, nurses, and other medical and dental assistants labor every day to take care of their patients, but experts say there are too few of them today, and by 2020 there will be a shortage of up to 200,000 physicians and 1 million nurses. Rural Americans and those living in other underserved areas across the country are especially vulnerable to these current and growing health workforce shortages. We must begin to look at our Health Care Work Force and examine all Healthcare delivery at the national and international levels.
I propose that we as a nation begin to look at the Health Care Work Force as a start in moving in the direction of the changing healthcare industry. I propose changing the workforce supply, like providing proper resources; work environment, creating an excellent work environment; and looking at future care models where we can work effectively avoid shortages and increase demand. By improving communications between patients and their providers, peers and computerized health applications we will have the potential to drastically improve access to many types
References: Larkin G.V. (1983) Occupational Monopoly and Modern Medicine; London WHO (2000) Workshop on Global Health Workforce Strategy; France; World Health JAMA. 2011 Mar 2;305(9):934-5. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.237. No abstract available. PMID: 21364143[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]