Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: How to Safeguard Your Organization’s Most Important Asset (PDF )

By Lori Wightman MSN, Tresha Moreland MBA
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.
The six levers covered in this book are:

Strengthening organizational resiliency
Shaping a better workplace culture
Improving employee retention rates
Aligning care quality and organizational effectiveness
Taking control of internal and external recruitment strategies
Preparing the workforce for the future

Confronting the healthcare workforce shortage will not be easy. But with some creative thinking, new approaches, and a commitment to change, healthcare organizations can experience a smoother voyage through the storm.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ ACHE Management Series; 1st edition (August 21, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 126 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1640552871
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1640552876