Human Resources helping family wellness

The health nags in human resources have exhausted every possible idea to guide individual employees into good health.That's why the next front in the Wellness Wars is not about the employee. It's about their husbands, wives, and kids. While most big companies already have employee wellness programs, the newest trend is expanding those efforts to include dependents. I feel that this is a great idea for the fact the employees aren't using these benefits themselves. Not to mention those who have to trick health facilities in order to help family members receive insurance. This also will help to motive those employees who weren't willing to get on the program. Perhaps seeing that their family members are taking the positive steps to better themselves,will provide that push for the employee to take his or her heath more seriously. this battle is about more than slimming down and lowering blood pressure. Many policy experts believe that workplace wellness programs have great cost-cutting potential. A recent meta-analysis of existing studies by two Harvard professors published in the February issue of the journal Health Affairs found that for every dollar companies spend on employee wellness, medical costs fall an average of $3.27.

Healthcare recruiting

Recruitment in health care is an ever changing process and happens in many different forms and by many different means. There is no industry that is more primitive in recruiting than healthcare. This is not to say that all healthcare organizations are awful at recruiting; those who have mastered 21st century recruiting approaches achieve phenomenal success. The most two commonly known reasons why recruiting is such a weak point in health care are that too many healthcare organizations are putting doctors in management roles, and nurses and other healthcare professionals in the recruiting and HR positions. Health care organizations put doctors into management roles because they have more education under their belt and have the credentials to carry out the organizations charter. Unfortunately doctors aren’t trained in management, so they aren’t equipped with the proper management tools to handle issues like unexcited employees and incentives. Nurses being assigned positions in the HR department and as recruiters are also an issue because these professionals aren’t properly educated or trained in these specific areas of the health care organization. The solution for both issues would be to hiring employees who specifically specialize in the HR department and recruiting. This is a more costly option for the organization at first but eventually will save a lot of money in the end when the turnover rate is down

Issues: The healthcare H.R department

With the close observation of our health care system, numerous human resource department issues arise. Various insufficient factors emerge that clearly affect health care practices and human resources management. Some of the greater issues from the Human Resources department include the workforce training issue, and the migration of health workers. Workforce training is an important issue within the HR department of our healthcare systems. The human resources personnel need to be able to analyze and determine the skills and the training level of the health workers. The workforce has to have the highest level of awareness in preparation to meet our country's present and future needs. The best way to improve the workforce ability is through provision of better health education and job training. The second issue the HR departments in healthcare are facing is the migration of health care workers. Research suggests that the movement of health care professionals closely follows the migration pattern of all professionals in that the internal movement of the workforce to urban areas. The Human resource issues in health care come in where strategies are required to address the lack of motivation and dissatisfaction resulting from low wages. The best way to improve this issue is to start rewarding those who continue to work hard with more paid vacation days, bonuses, etc.

What does Human Resources mean to you and what is their role in healthcare organizations?

What does human resources mean to me? Honestly I’ve have not gone into too much depth within the human resource department during my years in the workforce, so my knowledge is minor. I do know that those who work in Human Resources are not only responsible for hiring and firing, and that those in Human Resource also handle contacting job references and administering employee benefits. As a future nursing home administrator the human resource department is what makes are breaks getting hired for a position within the specified nursing home facility. The Human Resource departments role in an healthcare organizations are similar to any other business meaning that the Human resource department employees must be great at judging applicants because the applicants potential careers are based on the Human Resource officials decision. They have to be able to decipher not only if their right person for the available positions but also how the applicant will mesh with the current staff. It is not enough to be able to simple just screen, hire, and fire potential employees; The Human Resources department are also responsible for handling a crisis in a smooth, discreet manner such as sexual harassment. Overall Human Resources are the base of an organization; this department is the foundation of any organization success.

Measuring Quality in health care

How does one measure quality in health care? A different perspective leads to different definitions of what’s considered quality in health care. Although there are many perspectives (i.e. patients, stockholders, etc) of what is considered quality in health care, the satisfaction of the patient is nucleus of how well a facility runs. Fortunately there are tools that can help with the measurement of quality in a health care setting. I find the most effective tool in measuring quality of health care is the Quality assessment. A quality assessment measures the difference between expected and actual performance to identify opportunities for improvement. The method of quality assessment that I find is the most affective is the patient exit interview method. The exit interview method is best because it gets the patient experiences in the facility while the thought is still fresh on their mind. The exit interview provide an opportunity to obtain information from the client’s perspective on the services received that day a perspective often very different from that of the health care worker.

The perspective of the patient is the most important determinant as to whether an adverse event has occurred. The patients aren't trained to identify when an adverse event has occurred like physicians, but they are knowledgeable enough to know when there body isn't feeling right. I feel that the patients perspective is more detailed and honest because patients have nothing to gain by crying wolf in a clinical trial (assuming the proper legal procedures has been taken). The patient usually know how their body feels when it is healthy, so the physicians need to see and hear their patients perspective on the event to figure out what went wrong. Who else is going to determine if an adverse event has occurred? The physician can only go by what the patient tells him or her; unless there is visible evidence an adverse event has occurred. The physicians deal with so many different patients it becomes hard for them to keep up with the detail of every patients treatment. Yes, they can read and record information on the patient, but then those tend to focus on the major issues of the clinical trials. Physicians cannot have a complete understanding of the drugs safety without the patients perspective.

The reform bill affects on quality of health care

With the recent passing of the health reform bill the United States is taking a step forward in the progression of our health care system. There are many positive aspects of the bill that will prove to benefit millions of uninsured Americans. I do feel that economically we will all benefit from passing of the bill,but one area that might suffer is the quality aspect of health care. Honestly i can only see the reform bill having an adverse effect on the quality of care in the United States. Issues like the government possibly having a hard time funding the reform plan, thus taking away from technology research and overcrowding health care facilities give me the feeling this wasn't a good idea. How can our country afford to give everybody insurance? The answer is by raising taxes and decreasing funds put towards research. Technology is instrumental in the progression of medicine, and with all the funds being geared toward insuring the country we wont be able to find out easier less pain full ways to treat patients. Over crowding is the other quality issue that will be affected by this bill. As of right now we are short on physicians in this country and there will only be more patients as the bill becomes affective. This means longer wait times and shorter interactions with the physicians. Quality of care as we know it might cease to exist if something doesn't change within the next couple of years before the bill becomes active.

What does quality mean to you?

Quality to me is preceived in terms of preference and value. I evaluate quality of health care according to the responsiveness of my specific need. I find that quality is based mostly on perspective. The patient and provider have different ideas of what is considered quality. Me as the patient is going to define quality as how much effort a physician/facility is puting in to make sure that i am comfortable and treated. Where as a physician would view quality as more technical( making sure the appropriate care is performed,basically doing the right thing right). Comfort is a major part of quality in health care to me. Everybody expects to get treated correctly when it comes to health care,but how you are treated before actually diagnosis is what makes or breaks good quality to me. There has been numerous occasions where I've had to sit for hours in the so called emergency room filling out insurance information before i could get looked at. That is considered poor quality of care to me because i feel that getting treated should be first. I believe its because of issues like this that our countries health care system is viewed in such a negative light.