Healthcare Systems: An Outline of Health Service Requirements and Processes

HA255: Human Resources for Health Care Organizations Unit 1 Assignment: Trends and Shortage Analysis

Unit outcomes addressed in this assignment:

HA255-3: Examine evidence-based human resource strategies in the application of operation management.

GEL-8.2: Use principles of sound reasoning

Course outcome assessed/addressed in this assignment:

• Describe and discuss the structural, behavioral, and human resource systems that impact health care organizational outcomes.

• Describe, in general, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ projected growth for the health care workforce as compared to the economy as a whole.

• Identify the persistent causes of health workforce shortages at various training levels.

Instructions

• Journal/Newspaper Analysis Activity: This analysis-based activity will help students apply the concepts of critical thinking to the analysis of source material. Conduct thorough research to find two or three articles related to trends in the healthcare workforce and causes of workforce shortage. Two page summary

Requirements

• Paper includes discussion of evidence-based human resource strategies in the application of operation management.

• Identifies at least two the persistent causes of health workforce shortages at various training levels.

• Paper includes discussion of the structural, behavioral, and human resource systems that impact health care organizational outcomes.

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Unit 1 Assignment Grading Rubric = 30 points

Assignment Requirements Points possible

Points earned by student

Paper includes discussion of evidence- based human resource strategies in the application of operation management.

0-10

Paper includes discussion of the structural, behavioral, and human resource systems that impact health care organizational outcomes.

0-10

Identifies at least two the persistent causes of health workforce shortages at various training levels.

0-10

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