Category: Healthcare

Introduction Inadequate staffing and training of nurses is a serious problem that causes nursing shortage in health care organizations. Most health care facilities do not meet the recommended nursing staffing levels. It therefore becomes difficult to provide quality health care as there are fewer nurses in each section or to offer particular service. Lack of…

Health care facilities manage patients’ life and health daily; quality medical care relies on ably trained nurses and doctors, high facility equipment, and good record keeping. Health care documentation records the facts about a patient’s health involving both past and most recent examinations, tests, illnesses, treatments, medical records. Medical patient care, an important aspect, was…

Maternal health is a field that focuses on the well-being of women while pregnant, during, childbirth, and throughout the postnatal period. Professionals in the fields of nursing and maternal health should be aware of the ever-changing cultural issues and trends. The nursing theory identifies cultural competence as an evidence-based practice whereby caregivers work in diverse…

The American College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE) mission is to promote its members professionally and enhance healthcare leadership excellence through competent education and healthcare management research. It is an international professional organization of more than 48,000 healthcare executives who manage hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare facilities (American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), n.d.). This…

The structure and the leadership of a health organization influence the motivation, work environment and the general feeling of the patients and health care workers. Therefore, the following paper is an analysis of organizational structure and performance in relation to improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Curry et al. (2015) carried an intervention study that…

Description of the Organization United Healthcare (UH) is an incorporated public firm in the US known for offering healthcare products and insurance services. The organization is based in Minnesota and was the second in terms of revenue and net premiums in 2019. UH had a revenue of close to $260 billion and consists of more…

Recruitment is the procedure of persuading individuals to apply for a job in the organization. The staffing process in healthcare includes three stages. All of them are equally important to human resources management and the benefit of the organization (Cable, 2013). These three stages are acquisition, retention, and separation. The acquisition stage starts with the…

Table of Contents Introduction Leadership Qualities Ethical Leadership Soft Skills Leadership Styles Leadership Models References Introduction To understand the differences between leadership and management, an individual should consider his own experience with the terms. The concept of leadership always includes one individual’s influence on a person or a group of people. The influence could occur…

A risk management plan refers to a comprehensive document detailing the process of risk management in an organization (Burt, 2016). The risk management process involves identifying the risks, analyzing them, identifying risk tolerance and developing risk mitigation measures to manage various risks (Lam, Figueroa, Reimold, Orav, & Jha, 2018). This is mainly done to ensure…

Introduction Tuberculosis is a respiratory killer disease and it poses a health risk to the lives of many people in different parts of the world. Cases of tuberculosis are higher in the South East Asian countries. This assertion implies that Brunei, being one of southeast Asian countries, tuberculosis is a great health problem to her…