The need for strong leadership and increased diversity is a prominent issue in today's health services workforce. This article reviews the latest literature, including research and proposed agendas, regarding women in executive healthcare leadership. Data suggest that the number of women in leadership roles is increasing, but women remain underrepresented in the top echelons of healthcare leade...

Compassion is a complex process that is innate, determined in part by individual traits, and modulated by a myriad of conscious and unconscious factors, immediate context, social structures and expectations, and organizational "culture." Compassion is an ethical foundation of healthcare and a widely shared value; it is not an optional luxury in the healing process. While the interrelations betw...

Understanding the methodology of grounded theory can assist researchers in expanding the knowledge and application of the human resource management practices of recruitment and retention beyond the bounds of traditional theories and methodologies. This paper encompasses research in which grounded theory, when applied to workforce management, provides insight into the challenges of recruiting an...

OBJECTIVES Little is known about the prognosis of community-acquired bacteraemia (CAB) in workforce adults. We assessed return to workforce, risk for sick leave, disability pension and mortality within 1 year after CAB in workforce adults compared with blood culture-negative controls and population controls. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING North Denmark, 1996-2011. PARTICIPA...

As we move from a standards approach to patient care to one based on quality and outcomes, so the need to identify and reassess processes and practices in patient care, is critical. Healthcare organisations need to look at re-evaluating and redesigning staffing and scheduling of the workforce, with a focus on what the evidence now tells us provides the safest practices to support positive outco...

The Work Group’s recommendations led to formation of the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21 Century, whose principal charge is to “right-size” the acute and long term care delivery systems. The Commission’s mandate is to shape a health care delivery system that meets community needs, rather than simply preserve existing institutions. The Commission also envisions new acute and long ...

BACKGROUND Bangladesh is one of the health workforce crisis countries in the world. In the face of an acute shortage of trained professionals, ensuring healthcare for a population of 150 million remains a major challenge for the nation. To understand the issues related to shortage of health workforce and healthcare provision, this paper investigates the role of various healthcare providers in p...

Upcoming changes to the healthcare delivery system, detailed in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; Public Law No: 111–148, March 23, 2010), focus on the growing expectation that interprofessional organizations (institutional practices such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient center healthcare homes) will become the nexus of the delivery of efficient, cost effe...

As countries around the world struggle to provide oncology care and treatment to their populations, nurses, as the largest healthcare workforce, are faced with the challenge of obtaining, maintaining, and developing specialized oncology nursing knowledge and expertise. Strategies that can be deployed at a local level to support nurses with integrating new knowledge into practice are important i...

Context There is a growing body of evidence linking the transformation of healthcare services with an empowered workforce which is achieved in part through effective leadership. This study by Wong and colleagues correlates empowerment, job satisfaction and job performance with authentic leadership; an approach that focuses on whether the leader is genuine. The four key characteristics of the au...