Challenges That the Leaders of Today's Health Care Organizations Face

Challenges That the Leaders of Today's Health Care Organizations Face
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Introduction
Today’s American healthcare systems are faced with several challenges that need critical address before they get out of hand. In the coming years, these challenges are likely to put constraints on the quality of health. In responding to these factors, there are several proposed and implemented approaches that have been developed (Chassin, & Loeb, 2013). It is however, essential to emphasize that due to the natures of these issues, addressing them in one setting may prove to be challenging.
This paper therefore, seeks to address some of the critical matters that affect and challenge leaders in a healthcare setting. The paper will also focus on the impacts of these issues on a department and determine how improving communication and collaboration would improve the status of the department.
Issues Faced by Our Organization
It is important to mention that each and every health organization experience challenges in their functions of dispensing health services to the communities (Lubbe, & Roets, 2014). It is out of this aspect that our organization has also witnessed some challenges that have significantly affected the manner in which services are delivered to the community. Two of these challenges include; nurse shortages and poor job satisfaction that have resulted in low turnover rates.
Shortages in nurses have greatly increased over the past years. The delivery of care for the hospitalized patients is a complex initiative the required a well-coordinated approach that involves several key health professionals. Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Providers, including all the other allied health practitioners are needed in the provision of individualized health care service (Lubbe, & Roets, 2014). However, an insufficient supply of the essential medical personnel has turned out to be a stressor for our department. These shortages have resulted from several factors such as an increase in demand for nurses, the demographical changes within the RN workforce and the decrease in supply of RN staffs including issues to do with low wages.
On the other hand, poor job satisfaction has been a challenge for our institution as well. Due to unsatisfied nurses, there have been several issues that have cropped up to affect our Department. This aspect has resulted in a lack of commitment, delivery of poor quality care to patients, staff absenteeism among the nurses in our institution (May, Bazzoll, Gerland, 2010). It is important to note that satisfied nurses are committal to their duties and provides high levels of job performance, that impact the turnover rates of an institution. It is out of these issues that we have to derive decisive approaches geared towards solving the issues that hinder our attempts of providing quality health services to the community.
Improving Communication, Collaboration, and Teamwork in Our Department
Improving collaboration, teamwork, and communication is an essential proponent in solving the issues and challe...