A strategic workforce planning is the planning that focuses on right people at right place throughout the employment cycle. When this plan is limited to a health care facility, it needs an efficient and appropriate plan. The Heartfelt health service is a health care resource which is organized to care for sick and injured population. To serve this purpose, the heartfelt health service need to collaborate a broad array of skills, collection and storage of information, provision of equipment and facilities and a system to work. Human resources in health care setting is divided into two groups: one is those who are providing care to patients and other is providing non-care to patients ( Beaglehole & Poz,2003 ) The most important aspect is the
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The data collection will help the heartfelt health service a better understanding of its future need and how the changing landscape of health will affect the job positions. It also helps in knowing the employees and how they do their jobs and deliver patient care( Slowik,2011). While collecting the data for workforce plan in Heartfelt health service it was observed that the baby boomer generation is the largest group of employees and they are reaching to retirement ages. The post baby boomer population is less and they are the one who use health care services the most. It is estimated from the research of 2005 that there will a shortage of 10000-12000 nurses which would require doubling the number of nursing graduates available at that time (Harris, Zwar, Walker and Knight, 2011, p.194).It indicates that in the next few years, it is predicted that there is a dreed shortage of young skilled nurses. According to recent research the registered nurse workforce is going to reach the peak age over the coming decades (Preston 2009, p. 28). The projected age distribution for 2011 and 2021 in Australia suggests that a lower proportion of nurses will be there in work force for ages in between 30-40 but higher proportion for nurses with age more than 45(Simoens , Villeneuve and Hurst,2005). Workforce planning process deals with describing services provided by the nurses to the particular group of …show more content…
Heartfelt health services can provide an opportunity to the current nurses to take online courses. Medline University is providing some 40,000 online classes every month to the nurses and is well known for inculcating good skills in nurses through online sources. There are about 600,000 users on their platform that can choose out of 250 online registered courses. The reason behind introducing in service training is to give nurses an opportunity of feeling secure about their future
The data collection will help the heartfelt health service a better understanding of its future need and how the changing landscape of health will affect the job positions. It also helps in knowing the employees and how they do their jobs and deliver patient care( Slowik,2011). While collecting the data for workforce plan in Heartfelt health service it was observed that the baby boomer generation is the largest group of employees and they are reaching to retirement ages. The post baby boomer population is less and they are the one who use health care services the most. It is estimated from the research of 2005 that there will a shortage of 10000-12000 nurses which would require doubling the number of nursing graduates available at that time (Harris, Zwar, Walker and Knight, 2011, p.194).It indicates that in the next few years, it is predicted that there is a dreed shortage of young skilled nurses. According to recent research the registered nurse workforce is going to reach the peak age over the coming decades (Preston 2009, p. 28). The projected age distribution for 2011 and 2021 in Australia suggests that a lower proportion of nurses will be there in work force for ages in between 30-40 but higher proportion for nurses with age more than 45(Simoens , Villeneuve and Hurst,2005). Workforce planning process deals with describing services provided by the nurses to the particular group of …show more content…
Heartfelt health services can provide an opportunity to the current nurses to take online courses. Medline University is providing some 40,000 online classes every month to the nurses and is well known for inculcating good skills in nurses through online sources. There are about 600,000 users on their platform that can choose out of 250 online registered courses. The reason behind introducing in service training is to give nurses an opportunity of feeling secure about their future