Your healthcare workers' wellbeing is the key to achieving all your other organisational goals, including patient outcomes.
Thriving healthcare workers attain and maintain long term effectiveness
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The realities of working in healthcare are confronting.
Witnessing patient health suffering is just the obvious challenge. People working in healthcare also experience
- Everything the public offers including anger, hostility and confusion
- Patient family disagreement and distress
- More patients than resources, sometimes leading to moral injury
- Isolation within the community, vicarious trauma
- Disappointment and frustration at the gap between their intention and what they are able to deliver to patients in real terms
- Unpredictable and uncertain working conditions in the context of COVID19
- The consequences of shift work, on call, 24/7 service delivery
- Bullying and harassment at levels higher than many other industries
- Constant competition for all manner of resources from training places to PPE
- Funding targets and restrictions that are restrictive in terms of care
- High levels of burnout
The risk to the healthcare worker wellbeing is high, it's inherent in the work of healthcare.
- 20% of the general Australian population will suffer from a mental illness like depression or anxiety in any given year. That means about 200,000 healthcare workers could experience mental illness this year, even without exposure to the risks inherent in going to their work.
- Healthcare organisations who do not support their workforce to be well, experience absenteeism and turnover increases, poorer patient experience and outcomes, costs grow and reputation declines.
- Solely focusing on resources is not enough. To be a leader in healthcare requires a different environment. One that gives priority to employee wellbeing first, one that deeply values everyone's health and demonstrates this commitment continuously, every day.
- Healthcare workers deliver your culture, values and service. When they are unwell:
- Patients feel it, they receive suboptimal care.
- Employees feel resentful, exhausted and/or let down and ultimately leave.
- Organisational stress grows.
- Nobody is satisfied working in these organisations, it's unsustainable.
- People work in healthcare to give care to other people.
- If your employees do not feel cared about they can not deliver healthcare to their capacity. Your ability to deliver your organisational goals is continually limited.
Fantastic healthcare worker wellbeing allows you to...
Benefit One
Provide the best patient care possible. Research shows very clearly that patient health outcomes and their subjective experience of health improves
Benefit Two
Increase the safety outcomes of your organisation, reducing risk to patients, providers and the organisation.
Benefit Three
Be the employer of choice. Maintain and attract the best healthcare professionals and support staff who enhance and support the positive culture you aim to create.
Benefit Four
Grow your organisational reputation, attract the best employees who can also attract funding and research opportunities.
Benefit Five
Be the employer of choice. Maintain and attract the best healthcare professionals and support staff who enhance and support the positive culture you aim to create.
Benefit Six
Grow your organisational reputation, attract the best employees who can also attract funding and research opportunities.
Learn how your organisation can improve its results through workforce wellbeing in our short report:
- Why physical resourcing is not enough to be effective
- How to move from the organisational cycle of suffering to the cycle of success
- 6 keys to a flourishing workforce who can actually achieve your organisational goals
- 7 step process to building the right skills in your workforce for sustained success over the long term
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