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Week 3 Assignment: Problem and Purpose Statement

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Week 3 Assignment: Problem Statement and Purpose of the Study

Problem Statement

Most of the studies that have been done in the recent past indicates that most of the resident homes healthcare episodes in United States lead to an adverse effect on the patients. It has also been highlighted that 1 out of 20 medical procedures will result to an error and employee turnover (Brown, 2015). Researches that have been done indicates that medical errors cost the American healthcare more than $1.9 billion in legal litigations and estimated $2.3 billion in additional hospital days every single year. Surprisingly, most of the studies have suggested that these statistics may be way below the reality based on the fact that it is difficult rather complex to capture real data in clinical setting (Brown, 2015). Several factors have been linked to the several adverse incidents and medical errors that are experienced in healthcare today. The incidents and errors are caused by both latent and active factors, system and individual causes are also linked to the problem that is adversely impacting the healthcare. Employee wellbeing as a factor that may cause medical errors include lack of employee motivation programs, long working hours, overworking which results to staff burnout in the healthcare which results to high employee turnover. Several studies that have been done to highlight the effects that healthcare staff well-being and health problem have on the patients’ treatment outcomes and safety in resident’s healthcare homes. However, little has been done to address the major concerns of how the resident homes healthcare professionals’ health and well-being can be improved in the process and reduce the high employee turnover that is witnessed in these organizations and improve the quality of life care in these healthcare organizations.

It this essence, the major problem has been how to develop frameworks within the resident’s home healthcare organizations that will improve the working environment and enhance the healthcare of the professionals that work in these organizations and reduce the problem of employee turnover in these organizations. The concern rather problem has been caused by lack of sufficient knowledge supported by empirical evidence that provide resident’s homes healthcare organization administrators with enough literature that can guide them to put in place programs that will enhance the health and well-being of these group of healthcare practitioners. Such programs that enhance the health and wellbeing of the employees are important as they will not only curtail high rate of employee turnover but also increase quality of care and patient satisfaction. The problem is that most of the healthcare administrators do not have the required knowledge to implement health and wellbeing improvements for the nurses working in residents’ homes care organizations . Healthcare sector is one of the sectors in which employees are involved in intensive work in a stressful environment. Understanding this problem through scientific investigation is important as it provide ways to enhance the welfare and improve health of resident’s home healthcare organizations’ employees is very important as it will contribute to the management of employee turnover in these organizations (Best & Kahn, 2016). It is because of this concern that there is need to conduct a research to investigate the problem and synthesize enough knowledge to understand how the poor health state of employees affect their productivity and contribute to employee turnover. This is also important as it will provide health care administrators in this sector with knowledge that is imperative in developing programs required to motivate and enhance employee health status.

Purpose of the Study

The current study focus on the effects and the impacts that staff’s health and wellbeing have on residents’ healthcare group home. Employee turnover in healthcare has been a major head to the healthcare administrators and it is because of this that it is a major policy issue in American healthcare (Brown, 2015). The purpose of this study is to synthesize knowledge through literature review and use of primary data that can be used by residents’ homes care organizations administrators to develop programs that are required to enhance employee wellbeing and health. However, most of the policy makers do not understand the reasons why the American healthcare is experiencing high employee turnover that has direct effect on the quality of care and patient satisfaction. The overriding purpose of this study is to describe how healthcare administrators in resident’s homes healthcare organizations can improve employees’ working environment through effective programs that improve wellbeing and health of the health professionals and limit the problem of employee turnover, enhance patients’ safety and quality of care provided. The study will also look at how poor health status of employees contribute to employee turnover and how it affect their productivity. The study will review literature to investigate the effects that employee wellbeing and health status has on quality of care and how it contributes to employee turnover in healthcare organizations. The study will also achieve its purpose by collecting data from study participants to provide empirical evidence on the best programs and frameworks that can be implemented to improve employees’ welfare and health in residents’ home healthcare organizations.

References

Best, J. W., & Kahn, J. V. (2016). Research in education. Pearson Education India.

Brown, J. K. (2015). Relationship between Patient Safety Culture and Safety Outcome Measures among Nurses. Retrieved from: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c096/f110cb656221d5b84eec13f840797dbe5b24.pdf

��The specific problem statement must be substantiated with literature….where in the literature is this stated?