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The Gulf Coast Health Services Steering Committee recognized early in its formation that enrolling and educating additional qualified nursing students alone would not improve the nursing workforce in the region. Hospitals must work diligently to improve the work environment for professional nurses so that they remain working in area hospitals, rather than pursuing careers in other organizations or industries. The Work Environment Workgroup, may in fact, be our most important long-term contribution to an enhanced nursing workforce.
Through its Ideal Work Environment Project, this workgroup seeks
to provide a vision for the ideal work environment in hospitals
and identify standards or performance measures by which a hospital
can determine its proximity to that ideal environment. An annual
survey of these performance measures is conducted, along with
identification of "best practices" within the five dimensions
of the Ideal Work Environment vision: Professionalism, Interpersonal
Communications and Teamwork, Training and Development, Environmental
Factors and Economic Considerations. Benchmarking reports are
provided to participating hospitals along with opportunities
to learn from each other's successes in these areas.
This project receives federal grant funding through the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Human Resources and
Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professionals.
The attached file is our 2005 improving the Work Environment in Gulf Coast Hospitals survey report. Please take the time to review and comment as appropriate.  Pleast direct your comments to marilyn.stadler@wrksolutions.com |
