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Supply Modeling, Service Utilization, and Population Health Needs-Based Planning - From Down to Up

August 18, 2024

Enhancing Healthcare through Effective Teamwork and Leadership

In healthcare, defining team roles and competencies is essential for meeting patient needs. Effective communication and strong leadership, supported by a health system infrastructure that provides adequate resources for teamwork, is the key to success.

Value of Health Workforce Analytics in Driving Evidence-Informed Health Service Operations

Data drives results. In the complex world of healthcare, where decisions can significantly impact patient outcomes and organizational efficiency, the strategic importance of having a foundation of operational health workforce analytics cannot be overstated.

The Power of Health Workforce Audits

Conducting a health workforce audit is an essential consultancy practice for enhancing the operational efficiency and strategic direction of healthcare organizations. Comprehensive assessments serve as a diagnostic tool that can reveal both existing strengths, and opportunities for improvement within an organization's workforce framework.

Health Service Utilization

How, when, and where to measure and utilize service delivery is a major challenge within the health system. Utilization can , much like supply and need-based, be broken down into two parts; it starts with what we know and then proceeds to what are the gaps.

Canadian Challenges with Hiring for the Nursing Workforce: The IEN

Governments see investing in internationally educated nurses (IENs) as an excellent way to increase the supply of qualified nurses in their jurisdictions. Currently, barriers such as streamlined assessment, training and support are impeding the success.

Health Workforce Modeling - Challenges and Approaches for Effective Health System Planning

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The Concept of Integrated Health Systems and Health Workforce Planning

The concept of integrated health systems and Health Workforce planning entails a comprehensive strategy for healthcare planning that takes into account the needs and demands of the entire health system. This approach aims to enable decision-makers, planners, and healthcare leaders to understand and coordinate the far-reaching impacts of different strategic plans on the overall health system.

Nurse-Patient Ratios and Health System Planning

Context, literature, and challenges around using relying on Nurse-Patient ratios to drive health workforce planning. Historically, the planning and managing of these vital resources have been guided by conventional strategies that are now revealing their limitations, such as those associated with Nurse-Patient ratios.