Nurse Shortage Case Study
Strategies and recommendations to
Overcome workforce shortages
And Improve Employee Morale.
MIDDLEFIELD HOSPITAL
MARCH, 2011
Prepared for: Board of Directors, Middlefield Hospital
Prepared By: Deepthi Tandra (CEO), Middlefield Hospital
This report details strategies and recommendations to overcome the workforce shortages and improvement of employee morale of Middlefield Hospital. The Middlefield Hospital is a 50-bed tertiary care facility and has an integrated health system, provides full array of inpatient and outpatient services. Though it has a reputation for providing quality care, it turns out that the hospitals employee turnover rate exceeds 20% and there are over 100 nursing vacancies. …show more content…
Since the university is facing difficulties in recruiting well qualified instructors, strategies should be developed to attract qualified instructors. Also, the hospital can implement a strategy by collaborating with Essex University and attracting the students to work in Middlefield by providing financial aid to those students who work in the hospital after their graduation. The students get to know more of the hospital environment and rules by the time their education is completed. The students can have clinical experience and also reduce the workload of nurses by helping them. I would also suggest implementing the following strategies to attract …show more content…
• Implement joint-appointments and other personnel assignment strategies that support and complement full-time faculty. • Investigate flexible scheduling options for faculty. • Explore the potential for shared faculty appointments for specialty services, e.g., Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Community Health.
Increase State Funding • Increase nursing program funding to reflect market compensation trends and to accommodate increasing program enrollments. • Fully fund the Health Personnel Shortage Incentive Grant Program.
Faculty Compensation • Increase faculty compensation to make the faculty role a viable career option. - Develop mechanisms to sustain market pay rates for nurses in faculty roles. - Adjust benefit options as needed to remain competitive.
Maximize Use of Existing Resources • Develop alternative class and clinical schedules to optimize existing facilities. • Regionalize coordination of clinical schedules.
Secondly, I would suggest strategies to retain workforce and fill the nursing vacancies.
• Target and
Overcome workforce shortages
And Improve Employee Morale.
MIDDLEFIELD HOSPITAL
MARCH, 2011
Prepared for: Board of Directors, Middlefield Hospital
Prepared By: Deepthi Tandra (CEO), Middlefield Hospital
This report details strategies and recommendations to overcome the workforce shortages and improvement of employee morale of Middlefield Hospital. The Middlefield Hospital is a 50-bed tertiary care facility and has an integrated health system, provides full array of inpatient and outpatient services. Though it has a reputation for providing quality care, it turns out that the hospitals employee turnover rate exceeds 20% and there are over 100 nursing vacancies. …show more content…
Since the university is facing difficulties in recruiting well qualified instructors, strategies should be developed to attract qualified instructors. Also, the hospital can implement a strategy by collaborating with Essex University and attracting the students to work in Middlefield by providing financial aid to those students who work in the hospital after their graduation. The students get to know more of the hospital environment and rules by the time their education is completed. The students can have clinical experience and also reduce the workload of nurses by helping them. I would also suggest implementing the following strategies to attract …show more content…
• Implement joint-appointments and other personnel assignment strategies that support and complement full-time faculty. • Investigate flexible scheduling options for faculty. • Explore the potential for shared faculty appointments for specialty services, e.g., Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Community Health.
Increase State Funding • Increase nursing program funding to reflect market compensation trends and to accommodate increasing program enrollments. • Fully fund the Health Personnel Shortage Incentive Grant Program.
Faculty Compensation • Increase faculty compensation to make the faculty role a viable career option. - Develop mechanisms to sustain market pay rates for nurses in faculty roles. - Adjust benefit options as needed to remain competitive.
Maximize Use of Existing Resources • Develop alternative class and clinical schedules to optimize existing facilities. • Regionalize coordination of clinical schedules.
Secondly, I would suggest strategies to retain workforce and fill the nursing vacancies.
• Target and