Personnel Management
Safe Work Environment Providing a safe work environment will be a strong recruitment strategy for the CSU at TCCH. One of the nation’s largest secure forensic psychiatric hospitals, Atascadero State Hospitals (ASH) is located ten miles from TCCH. There are over 1,900 mental health professionals that work at ASH and living in the community around TCCH. ASH provides care to violent individuals who were not able to stand trial due to their mental illness. Employees at ASH often suffer severe injuries due the erratic behavior of the patients. The population being served by the CSU is likely to display violent behaviors. Specialized environmental controls and staff training will be utilized to assure patient and staff safety …show more content…
TCCH use lean daily management tools to create a culture of safety and employee engagement. Lean daily management is one of the tools TCCH is using on its journey to becoming a high reliable organization. Lean daily management increases employee engagement, by encouraging staff to identify opportunities for improvement within their area then supporting the employees as they discover the solution to the problem. Employee engagement is supported through nursing shared governance and unit based councils. TCCH is able to maintain a low turnover rate through staff engagement and daily executive rounding. Daily rounding on dayshift and weekly on nights helps the executive team build relationships with each employee. TCCH strategically uses sign on bonus to recruit and retain employees. A registered nurse can earn a $10,000 sign on bonus by committing two years to TCCH. The facility has learned that a higher sign on bonus with a longer commitment helps reduce overall recruitment cost and …show more content…
He prepared his team by providing them the tools they needed to accomplish his goal. Paul shares an example of this in, Ephesians 4:11-13 (MSG) “Christ provided the apostle, prophet, evangelist, and teacher to train his followers in skilled servant work, working within his body the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ”. Christ recognized the abilities within people that would bring glory to him and satisfaction to his people. Although we all come to faith as an individual, man is not meant to work alone. Community makes us stronger. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, “It’s better to have a partner than go it alone. Share the work, share the wealth, and if one falls down, the other helps, but if there’s no one to help, tough”.
Conclusion
Developing a mental health CSU at TCCH will improve patient outcomes not only for the mental health patient, but also for the other the patients presenting to the ED who will no longer be displaced by the patient. The CSU will help patients experiencing a psychiatric crisis recover quicker by reducing the anxiety and agitation they develop in the chaotic ED environment. Although the CSU will not likely be a positive revenue source for the hospital, it will improve the hospitals
Safe Work Environment Providing a safe work environment will be a strong recruitment strategy for the CSU at TCCH. One of the nation’s largest secure forensic psychiatric hospitals, Atascadero State Hospitals (ASH) is located ten miles from TCCH. There are over 1,900 mental health professionals that work at ASH and living in the community around TCCH. ASH provides care to violent individuals who were not able to stand trial due to their mental illness. Employees at ASH often suffer severe injuries due the erratic behavior of the patients. The population being served by the CSU is likely to display violent behaviors. Specialized environmental controls and staff training will be utilized to assure patient and staff safety …show more content…
TCCH use lean daily management tools to create a culture of safety and employee engagement. Lean daily management is one of the tools TCCH is using on its journey to becoming a high reliable organization. Lean daily management increases employee engagement, by encouraging staff to identify opportunities for improvement within their area then supporting the employees as they discover the solution to the problem. Employee engagement is supported through nursing shared governance and unit based councils. TCCH is able to maintain a low turnover rate through staff engagement and daily executive rounding. Daily rounding on dayshift and weekly on nights helps the executive team build relationships with each employee. TCCH strategically uses sign on bonus to recruit and retain employees. A registered nurse can earn a $10,000 sign on bonus by committing two years to TCCH. The facility has learned that a higher sign on bonus with a longer commitment helps reduce overall recruitment cost and …show more content…
He prepared his team by providing them the tools they needed to accomplish his goal. Paul shares an example of this in, Ephesians 4:11-13 (MSG) “Christ provided the apostle, prophet, evangelist, and teacher to train his followers in skilled servant work, working within his body the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ”. Christ recognized the abilities within people that would bring glory to him and satisfaction to his people. Although we all come to faith as an individual, man is not meant to work alone. Community makes us stronger. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, “It’s better to have a partner than go it alone. Share the work, share the wealth, and if one falls down, the other helps, but if there’s no one to help, tough”.
Conclusion
Developing a mental health CSU at TCCH will improve patient outcomes not only for the mental health patient, but also for the other the patients presenting to the ED who will no longer be displaced by the patient. The CSU will help patients experiencing a psychiatric crisis recover quicker by reducing the anxiety and agitation they develop in the chaotic ED environment. Although the CSU will not likely be a positive revenue source for the hospital, it will improve the hospitals