Nurse staffing and scheduling is a major health human resource issue currently facing healthcare organizations. To increase the capacity of healthcare organizations to address a variety of issues related to nurse staffing and scheduling, a mult-isite collaborative project was undertaken. The primary focus of this project was

This short literature review argues that the Resource-Based View (RBV) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. RBV links well to the broader interest in more effective Knowledge Mobilization (KM) in healthcare. The paper outlines and discusses key concepts, texts and authors from the RBV tradition and gives recent example...

Social media, a resource largely untapped in the healthcare field, presents opportunities and advantages and, if used properly, can innovate healthcare and create a competitive advantage for adopters. Many organizations have considered social media but dismissed its advantages as fleeting products of the new generation entering the workforce: the millennials. However, the millennial generation ...

Abstract Ethics issues are present in the daily life of every human being. This paper presents an overview difficult, yet everyday ethics dilemmas, and general rules tools helping making ethical choices. These are: distinguishing facts from values, reasoning principles, defining terms clarifying concepts, comparing cases, thought experiments, logic, recognizing avoiding errors reasoning. But al...

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A MID RISING COST pressures and the move towards greater “accountability” for reducing cost and improving patient outcomes in healthcare, the importance of effective business analytics – including IT benchmarking – is at an alltime high.1,2 With the diminishing financial incentives from meaningful use, the ability for healthcare organizations to compare areas of IT costs and staffing with known...

OBJECTIVE To study whether the Dutch participation model is a good model of participation. BACKGROUND Patient participation is on the agenda, both on the individual and the collective level. In this study, we focus on the latter by looking at the Dutch model in which patient organizations are involved in many formal decision-making processes. This model can be described as neo-corporatist. ...