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Health Care Staff Trends
The healthcare system has seen various changes over the decades with the aim of making the care more efficient and quality to the citizens. One of the most important changes is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPAC) which has significantly changed the demand for healthcare professionals and the vacancies they have as well as the hiring and staffing practices by the healthcare organizations. These changes occasioned by the PPAC have various tenets and also implications that come with them especially for the healthcare sector in the future.
The PPAC has resulted in the rising of the nurse practitioner and the physician assistant roles within the healthcare system. This has made many healthcare organizations to focus more on the team approaches to providing care which is geared towards employing more nursing practitioners and physician assistants who will help in providing care to the aging population. This will result in creation of more vacancies for the healthcare professionals hence making the industry more attractive and at the same time it will ensure the industry attract more professional human resource over the coming years.
The PPAC also came with significant changes in the health IT which gave the mandate to the EHR adoption across the industry with the aim of upgrading the services and also making them better at a lower cost. This implementation of the health IT across the industry led to the increased demand for the IT savvy professionals who were to help in the...
This meant that the human resources within the various healthcare organizations changed focus and quality to not just bringing in the nursing related professionals, but a diversity to other technical and science related fields like information science and engineering, a trend that will in the future see an amalgamation of professions and human resources working in the healthcare sector, a field that was there before reserved for medicine related human resources.
Globalization has brought in a lot of changes in the HRM strategies across all industries and the healthcare sector is not an exempt. The contemporary trends demand a leadership strategy that is open to the employees and one that has an easy to access communication system. This will enable the nurses and physicians to easily communicate with their seniors and vise versa and in the process strengthening the working relations and improving the…
References
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