Description of Tasks and Performance Indicators

Description of Tasks and Performance Indicators
Introduction
The global healthcare sector faces a common challenge of high rates of nurse turnovers leading to the crisis of nursing shortage in healthcare systems and providers worldwide. The human resource problem often creates heavy workloads for nurses, exposing them to adverse implications such as nurse burnout and subsequent low job satisfaction. High nurse turnover rates and nursing shortage also correlate to the increasing cost of healthcare witnessed in most healthcare systems worldwide. These human resource challenges tend to increase the cost of recruitment and training of newly-hired nurses, reflecting in the increased cost of healthcare across different healthcare systems. Such occurrences limit the ability of healthcare systems around the globe to deliver the key objective of safe and quality patient care. It is, therefore, imperative for both the nurse leaders and nurse managers to develop effective interventional measures to address the human resource problem facing the global healthcare sectors. Among the strategic approaches for addressing the human resource problem in health is the development and adoption of effective motivational approaches by the nursing leadership and management. It is advisable for nursing leadership and management to identify both the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the performances of nurses and other healthcare professionals. Intrinsic factors influencing the performance of healthcare professionals are characteristic of the personal values and beliefs that drive the healthcare professionals’ actions toward the delivery of the quality patient care. On the other hand, extrinsic factors are the external elements within the healthcare workplace environment that inform the actions of healthcare professionals in the delivery of patient care. Provided herein is a detailed proposal highlighting some of the performance indicators toward developing an effective motivational plan for healthcare professionals based on a strategic system of rewarding and providing incentives for better performance.
Description of Tasks and Performance Indicators
Healthcare professionals share the common objective of delivering safe and quality patient care to the population in need of their medical attention and expertise. Achieving the said objective demands the integration of both individual and collaborative effort across the healthcare setting. In essence, healthcare professionals have to commit their time, knowledge, and skills in the delivery of quality and safe patient care as individuals and while working as a team. Evaluation of their ability to achieve the said objective is based on their efficacy in executing their assigned patient care tasks and observation of the healthcare professional practice standards embraced by their healthcare systems or institutions CITATION Gom12 \l 1033 (Gomes, 2012). Among the tasks for evaluating the performance of healthcare professionals include safe administration of drugs and other patient medication, appropriate diagnosis of patients’ medical needs, timely delivery of patient care, and maintaining good working relationship with the patients and colleagues. Effective execution of such tasks correlate...