Leave of absence is important in maintaining a good
status of human resource quality. Allowing the employees temporarily
free from the routine assignments can vitalize the workers- morality
and productivity. This is particularly critical to secure a satisfactory
service quality for healthcare professionals of which were typically
featured with labor intensive and complicated works to perform. As
one of the veteran hospitals that were found and operated by the
Veteran Department of Taiwan, the nursing staff of the case hospital
was squeezed to an extreme minimum level under the pressure of a
tight budgeting. Leave of absence on schedule became extremely
difficult, especially for the intensive care units (ICU), in which
required close monitoring over the cared patients, and that had more
easily driven the ICU nurses nervous. Even worse, the deferred leaves
were more than 10 days at any time in the ICU because of a fluctuating
occupancy. As a result, these had brought a bad setback to this
particular nursing team, and consequently defeated the job
performance and service quality. To solve this problem and
accordingly to strengthen their morality, a project team was organized
across different departments specific for this. Sufficient information
regarding jobs and positions requirements, labor resources, and actual
working hours in detail were collected and analyzed in the team
meetings. Several alternatives were finalized. These included job
rotating, job combination, leave on impromptu and cross-departmental
redeployment. Consequently, the deferred leave days sharply reduced
70% to a level of 3 or less days. This improvement had not only
provided good shelter for the ICU nurses that improved their job
performance and patient safety but also encouraged the nurses active
participating of a project and learned the skills of solving problems
with colleagues.
[1] O. Chen, S. J., & Huang, T. S. 2003.A hospital in the use of "work
management" to enhance the human use-effectiveness of ward project
report. Yang-Ming Hospital, 36 (1), 51-59.
[2] Eric S. Williams, Thomas R. Konrad, William E. Scheckler, Donald E.
Pathman, Mark Linzer, Julia E. McMurray, Martha Gerrity, Mark
Schwartz, 2001. "Understanding physicians: Intentions to withdraw from
practice: The role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical
health", Advances in Health Care Management, Vol. 2, pp.243 - 262
(2001).
[3] Lu, M. S. (2008). Nursing administration and management: Human
resources management general remarks. Health Care Management
Review, 26(1), 7-19.
[4] Bennett, 2003. Training Strategies for Tomorrow", Bradford, Vol.17,
No.4, 7
[5] Barry-Walwer, J. The impact of systems redesign on staff, patient, and
financial out comes. Journal of Nursing Administration, 30(2), 77- 89,
2000.
[6] Aiken, L. H., Clarke, S. P., Sloane, D. M., Sochalske, J., & Silber, J. H.
(2002). Hospital18 nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout,
and job dissatisfaction. JAMA, 288 (16), 1987-1993.
[7] Kung, Y. Y., Fu, L., & Yin, T. C. (2003). Care operations improvement
and humane. Veterans Care, 15 (4), 436-439.
[1] O. Chen, S. J., & Huang, T. S. 2003.A hospital in the use of "work
management" to enhance the human use-effectiveness of ward project
report. Yang-Ming Hospital, 36 (1), 51-59.
[2] Eric S. Williams, Thomas R. Konrad, William E. Scheckler, Donald E.
Pathman, Mark Linzer, Julia E. McMurray, Martha Gerrity, Mark
Schwartz, 2001. "Understanding physicians: Intentions to withdraw from
practice: The role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical
health", Advances in Health Care Management, Vol. 2, pp.243 - 262
(2001).
[3] Lu, M. S. (2008). Nursing administration and management: Human
resources management general remarks. Health Care Management
Review, 26(1), 7-19.
[4] Bennett, 2003. Training Strategies for Tomorrow", Bradford, Vol.17,
No.4, 7
[5] Barry-Walwer, J. The impact of systems redesign on staff, patient, and
financial out comes. Journal of Nursing Administration, 30(2), 77- 89,
2000.
[6] Aiken, L. H., Clarke, S. P., Sloane, D. M., Sochalske, J., & Silber, J. H.
(2002). Hospital18 nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout,
and job dissatisfaction. JAMA, 288 (16), 1987-1993.
[7] Kung, Y. Y., Fu, L., & Yin, T. C. (2003). Care operations improvement
and humane. Veterans Care, 15 (4), 436-439.
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status of human resource quality. Allowing the employees temporarily
free from the routine assignments can vitalize the workers- morality
and productivity. This is particularly critical to secure a satisfactory
service quality for healthcare professionals of which were typically
featured with labor intensive and complicated works to perform. As
one of the veteran hospitals that were found and operated by the
Veteran Department of Taiwan, the nursing staff of the case hospital
was squeezed to an extreme minimum level under the pressure of a
tight budgeting. Leave of absence on schedule became extremely
difficult, especially for the intensive care units (ICU), in which
required close monitoring over the cared patients, and that had more
easily driven the ICU nurses nervous. Even worse, the deferred leaves
were more than 10 days at any time in the ICU because of a fluctuating
occupancy. As a result, these had brought a bad setback to this
particular nursing team, and consequently defeated the job
performance and service quality. To solve this problem and
accordingly to strengthen their morality, a project team was organized
across different departments specific for this. Sufficient information
regarding jobs and positions requirements, labor resources, and actual
working hours in detail were collected and analyzed in the team
meetings. Several alternatives were finalized. These included job
rotating, job combination, leave on impromptu and cross-departmental
redeployment. Consequently, the deferred leave days sharply reduced
70% to a level of 3 or less days. This improvement had not only
provided good shelter for the ICU nurses that improved their job
performance and patient safety but also encouraged the nurses active
participating of a project and learned the skills of solving problems
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