Hr in hospital
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The document discusses human resource practices in healthcare in India. It notes that HR is important for healthcare organizations to function effectively and deliver quality services. Some key HR functions in healthcare include recruitment, training, performance management, and ensuring staff have necessary skills. However, healthcare HR faces challenges like complex accountability and uncertainty. The document recommends training programs for different staff to improve skills and recommendations for developing effective HR programs in hospitals.
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- 2. Introduction • India has a historical background of absorbing managerial ideas and practices from around the world. • The roots of management principles and prevalence of human resource practices can be traced to the world’s first management book, titled ‘Arthashastra’, written three millennia before Christ, which highlighted many aspects of human resource practices in ancient India. • The sociocultural roots of Indian heritage are diverse and have been drawn from multiple sources including ideas brought from other parts of the old world.
- 3. Hospital • According to the Directory of Hospitals in India, 1988, ‘A hospital is an institution which is operated for the medical, surgical and/or obstetrical care of in-patients and which is treated as a hospital by the Central/state government! Local body/private and licensed by the appropriate authority.’
- 4. Need for HR in Health care • Human Resource (HR) managers oversee employee administrative affairs in an organization. • The benefits of a HR department have gradually gained recognition in health care, owing to such challenges as economic instabilities, health care regulations and a dearth of experienced personnel. • The American Society for Healthcare Human Resources (ASHHRA) says that the presence of a HR manager in a health care facility is essential in delivering effective services
- 5. Cont… • A well motivated and appropriately skilled and deployed workforce is crucial to the success of health system delivery. • The actual methods used to manage human resources in healthcare are in themselves a major constraint or facilitator in achieving the objectives of any health organisation.
- 6. HR Job Descriptions in Healthcare • Recruiter • Compensation Manager • HR Generalist • Training and Development Manager
- 7. HR Practices in Healthcare • Staffing and Placement – Recruitment – Induction • Legal Research on Health Care – Health-related laws – Disputes arising from employee contracts.
- 8. Cont… • Management of Employees – Training – Performance Appraisal – Job Satisfaction • Decision-Making – Benefits – Promotion – Career Planning
- 9. Challenges • Healthcare organisations face continuous pressure to become productive, innovative, and provide quality healthcare • Frequently uncertain and difficult to assess • Healthcare outcomes are public organisations, hospitals cannot, in most cases, be judged on the basis of profitability. • Healthcare organisations are particularly complex due to their dual lines of accountability: professional and administrative.
- 10. human resource issues limiting the health system • Inadequate assessment of soft skills and other competencies at the time of recruitment • Inadequate training at various levels • Centralised planning and target-oriented performance appraisal • Rewards not linked to performance
- 11. Waysto Develop HRD Programs in Hospitals Training Programs : Training can be largely divided into two segments. – The continual medical training given to doctors, nurses and paramedics. – Service and behavioral training given to the front-office staff, telephone operators as well as nurses.
- 12. Training programfor Nurses: The Training Program for Nurses should not only focus on medical aspects but also on hospitality.
- 13. General TrainingPrograms: Training For Improving Soft Skills: • Self-awareness • Confidence-building • Interpersonal Skills • Team Spirit • Corporate Communication • Behavioral Management • Leadership.
- 14. Leadership programmes To enhance the behavioral skills of its employees, hospitals should initiate leadership programmes for its doctors and also the staff. The environment in which health care professionals practice is one in which conflict and the need for negotiation abounds. In order to develop as managers and senior leaders, individuals must know how their peers, subordinates, and supervisors perceive them.
- 15. Internal Team-building : Training programmes are also effective platforms for internal team building. When employees from different departments of a hospital come together by dint of a training initiative, it gives them an opportunity to understand each other better.
- 16. Technical Training : ECG, Echo, TMT, X-Ray, and also anaesthesia technicians, physician assistants, cath lab technicians and nursing care professionals. Training to handle disaster situations: Hospitals are amongst the most vulnerable places in case of any natural disaster because it houses patients who may not be able to escape. Such a training program is provided by NDMA.
- 17. Training for cleaning staff A hospital generates medical wastes which may be harmful if not properly disposed. As a result their training programmes include: • How to handle bio-hazard, used syringes and other medical wastes. • Separation of waste into recyclable and non-recyclable components. • learning how to operate hospital oriented cleaning machines. • Maintain a log of cleaning activities done.
- 18. Feedback from Staff Members • Regular feedback from hospital staff should be taken about the working environment and HRD programs being conducted in the hospital. • This data can be used to analyze the problems faced by the employees and undertake appropriate actions to help structure the programs in a better way.
- 19. Conclusion • The critical importance of HRD and its various issues can no longer be ignored • Rational recruitment procedures to meet the organisational goals, timeliness of the reward systems, transparent transfers policy, effective support systems, etc., are the felt needs of the times. • While there have been substantial policy changes in India in the area of public sector of healthcare, human resource management will have to be managed strategically and in an integrated manner