Workplace Environment Assessment Based on Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory

Workplace Environment Assessment
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Workplace Environment Assessment
The workplace environment is a critical and broad concept that influences an organization's well-being and progress. The workplace environment needs assessment to diagnose challenges and positives that affect social well-being and organizational growth and development. Workplace diagnoses allow the implementation of actions and protocols geared towards resolving identified health issues. Nurses are increasingly working in challenging health environments featuring limited resources and inadequate support. Despite existing challenges, nurses are expected to deliver quality care to patients. The quality and safety of care given are based on the nurses' ability to cope with stress effectively, collaborate with others, manage emotions, and communicate effectively. In addition, nurses carry the obligation of fostering safety, ethics, and civility in workplaces by embracing dignity, kindness, and respect for colleagues and patients. This paper workplace reviews the workplace environment based on Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory and associated resources reviews workplace literature and evidence-based strategies geared towards optimizing performance amongst interprofessional teams in healthcare.
Part One: Work Environment Assessment
From the workplace assessment using Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, critical aspects involving workplace conditions can be identified and analyzed. Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory helps in determining the health of a given workplace. The inventory comprises 20 ratable statements that assessors fill to determine the overall civility score. Each statement is the rate in a score of one to five. Thus, scores range from 20-100, where a score of 90-100 a very healthy workplace, 80 to 89 (moderately healthy), 70 to 79 (mildly healthy), 60 to 69 (barely healthy), 50 to 59, unhealthy and less than 50 (very unhealthy).
In our organizational assessment, mixed results were observed after receiving feedback from the colleagues while using the Clark Workplace Inventory template. However, the overall summative score based on Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory was 86, which indicates a moderately healthy workplace. Our organization ranked so due to the increased sense of civility existing between units of the hospital. Its tenets underpin this score as a constellation of highly interconnected principles, norms, and practices involving effective communication practices, trust, respect, practical collaboration, and evident efforts towards improving staff welfare.
The organizational members had a satisfactory level of a shared vision, mission, and communication based on trust, respect, and collegiality. Success in an organization arises from optimizing people's skills, knowledge, and expertise, which can be supported by developing a vital mission and vision and reinforcing strategies that would potentiate human resource capacity. In addition, the staff satisfactorily agree on the level of trust between and among formal leadership.
 They also felt satisfied with the level of communication that existed in the organization. Teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration were evident in the orga...