Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage
Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: How to Safeguard Your Organization’s Most Important Asset provides simple, practical, and proven strategies for healthcare leaders to address one of the biggest workforce shortages in recent history. The ideas and plans presented are built on real-life examples of organizations that have successfully overcome their workforce challenges.
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The book, "Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: Safeguarding Your Organization's Most Important Asset" recently has been chosen for the Association of University Programs in Healthcare Adminstration (AUPHA) Bugbee-Falk Student Book Award for 2022
About The Book
Healthcare organizations have been beset by a series of harrowing storms. Environmental, market, and demographic conditions had already caused a significant workforce shortage when the COVID-19 pandemic added unprecedented challenges to the mix. Healthcare leaders cannot simply hope the storm will pass but must tackle these issues today. Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: How to Safeguard Your Organization’s Most Important Asset provides simple, practical, and proven strategies for healthcare leaders to address one of the biggest workforce shortages in recent history. The ideas and plans presented are built on real-life examples of organizations that have successfully overcome their workforce challenges. Authors Tresha Moreland and Lori Wightman identify six key levers that healthcare leaders can use to address workforce shortages in their organization. The book delves deeply into the new problems posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the creativity needed to persevere through them.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Value of Pre-Work: Ten Steps to Develop a Resilient Organization
Chapter 2: Shaping Culture Carefully
Chapter 3: Make it Matter -- Engagment With a Difference
Chapter 4: Catch Them If You Can -- Retention Techniques
Chapter 5: Alighnment Is the Fuel for Performance
Chapter 6: Strategic Collective Bargaining
Chapter 7: Internal Recruitment Strategies
Chapter 8: External Recruitment Strategies
Chapter 9: How Macro-Level Shifts Impact the Workforce
Chapter 10: Pulling the Fuutre into the Present
Confronting the healthcare workforce shortage will not be easy. But with some creative thinking and a commitment to change, healthcare organizations can experience a smoother voyage through the storm.
What’s inside
Lever 1
Lever 2
Lever 3
Lever 4
Lever 5
Level 6
Preface
The objective of this book is to provide a launching point for creative thinking utilizing existing resources to narrowing the workforce shortage for your organization. The book focuses on providing practical strategies for healthcare executives in navigating one of the biggest workforce shortages of our time. Information is drawn straight from the field backed with real life examples of how organizations are addressing workforce supply challenges. Times have changed and so have the very talent we seek to fill our vacancies.
The successful use of this book will require:
- an open mind to embracing new ideas
- courage to question status quo
- curiosity to experiment, monitor and adjust practices
The above mindset will help you overcome a trap of making incorrect assumptions about the status of your organization in each lever and chapter. For example, if your eyes tend to glaze over when talking about organizational culture, you may be tempted to skip that chapter in the book and move on. However, culture may be the very thing that is derailing your organization from attracting and retaining talent which will help ease your workforce shortages if optimal. Those executives that have an open mind and courage to question the status quo will stand a better chance to resolve organizational derailers.
Recommendations to get the best use of this book:
- Take a step back and leave the “this is the way we do it here” at the door. Consider even for a moment if your organization did something different to fill even one more vacancy and retain one more employee?
- Consider setting up a cross functional team that will exhibit the above mindsets. Have the team evaluate your organization up against the levers described In this book. Make it safe for them to ask questions, challenge status quo, bring up issues, and make recommendations. From an executive level you may feel it’s safe to speak up. But is it really safe for all those who may have valuable input in your ability to attract and retain?
- Go beyond just talking about it. Have you sat in meetings where hours go by with lots of debate and discussion, but yet nothing happens? Get into a plan, act, and do. Time is wasting away!
- Make this effort an authentic effort to enhance your ability to impact workforce shortages. It should not be a part of political positioning, fiefdom building, or pet projects. If you really want to attract and retain start with being authentic throughout.
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Publisher : ACHE Management Series
About the authors.
Tresha Moreland, FACHE, MBA, MS, SPHR, is a business advisor and executive with more than 30 years of experience in human resources leadership roles. Her specialties as a consultant include organizational strategic planning, workforce planning, talent management and employee engagement, leadership development and succession planning, and internal communication.
Tresha Moreland
Lori Wightman, MSN, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, is a chief nursing officer with more than 25 years of progressive nursing leadership experience in diverse healthcare settings. She developed executive coaching skills through the Blue Mesa Coaching program and has extensive experience in coaching, mentoring , and succession planning.
Lori Wightman
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