Deployment of hospital staff is an act of employing and distributing staffs to different hospitals to ensure there is enough number of them in every part of the country. Deployment of staff is a very crucial thing that every hospital management should be concerned about and it is done to only those that are considered to be competent and hardworking. As the saying goes, a stitch in time saves nine. It is the same thing that happens when proper deployment is done in hospitals as unprecedented dangers are well contained in good time and it is for this reason that this essay will specifically focus on the effects of hospital staff deployment.
This essay is going to discuss in depth about the effects of staffing hospitals and will also give its recommendation on ways to improve efficiency in hospitals. The paper starts by giving a brief introduction about the topic and then proceeds to discuss about the main points in the body and concludes by giving a recap of the key points that have been discussed. On the very last page of this essay is a list of all sources that have been consulted, properly formatted in accordance with APA formatting style.
It is the role of the hospital management in conjunction with the government of the day to ensure that every hospital has enough staff to ensure normal running of hospital routines. When understaffing occurs in hospitals, numerous problems result that could have otherwise been averted if there were enough personnel for example, many deaths occurs when staff members are limited. This happens especially when sick patients do not get attention that they deserve because there are a lot of them who need attention of one staff.
When people die due to negligence of the government to deploy more hospital staff it is very sad and unfortunate and this is something that affects the nation at large as it loses its pool of human resource which negatively impact on the nation’s economy. When productive members of the society dies, they stop playing the part they play thereby affecting nation’s economic growth. (Schulz, R. and Johnson, A. C. 2003) When government fail to ensure there is enough deployment of staff in all hospitals, it could be said to have failed its people who it is committed to serve. It loses its focus and objectives of taking care of the citizens.
Lack of employment opportunities for the trained staff results to their immigration to other countries that would offer them jobs. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that there is enough pool of hospital staff and ensure they are deployed in hospitals that need them. Training hospital staff is something that requires attention and a lot of money is spent on the same and this is something that costs taxpayers money. For this reason, trained personnel should not go to waste but should be used in a more productive manner like serving sick members in the community.
(NYS Commission on Quality of Care, 1983) It is lack of proper deployment strategy that leads to the interruption of normal running of programs in hospitals. When this happens close monitoring of sick people becomes hard as one person is assigned many patients. Nurses and doctors becomes overburdened with work they are not supposed to handle alone and this leads to recalling some of them from their vacations or job leave to come and lend a hand. This reduces the productivity and effectiveness of these individuals. Just like the saying goes, ‘work without play makes Jack a dull boy.
It is the same happens when hospital staffs work throughout without being given a short break to rest. When medical attention is divided amongst patients, many deaths and other complications result something that generally compounds the situation. This happens because patients who if were given attention they deserved would have left the hospital in good time but instead are retained in hospitals for many days something that complicates their disease while at the same time increasing the cost of their treatment due to their prolonged stay in hospitals. (Schulz, R. and Johnson, A. C. 2003)