Healthy Workplace Environments

Running head : HEALTHY WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT

Healthy Workplace Environment

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Healthy Workplace Environment

A healthy workplace environment promotes positive working condition thus enhancing the company production and , employee satisfaction and state of health . The achievement of healthy workplace environment will improve the quality of healthcare services as well as aide in the recruitment and retention of healthcare workers . Various institutions in the healthcare industry already identified the importance of the establishment of healthy workplace environment hence these

institutions are making steps to achieve this goal

At present , the healthcare industry is facing problems on the retention and recruitment of healthcare employees ADDIN EN .CITE Committee7Health Care Workforce Policy Advisory CommitteeGeorgia Department of Community HealthP r o m o t i n g H e a l t h C a r e Wo r k

l a c e E x c e l l e n c e - T h e G e o r g i a D i a l o g u eRegional Invitational Forums on Workplace Excellence2002Georgiahttp /www .com munityhealth .state .ga .us /departments /dch /v4 /top /shared /con_dhp /dhp_publi cations /wpac_2002 .pdf (Committee Health , 2002 . Deterioration of the quality of life of the labor component of healthcare industry is a multi-dimensional crisis that greatly affects the quality of care provided by this industry Problems in the healthcare industry that is associated with the health of the employees include the following : absenteeism due to diseases and injury and , affliction of employees with stress that decreases their productivity in the workplace ADDIN EN .CITE Koehoorn7Koehoorn Mieke Lowe , Graham S Rondeau , Kent V Schellenberg , Grant Wager , Terry H .Ministry of Health , Ottawa (Ontario )Creat ing High-Quality Health Care Workplaces2002Ca nadian policy Research Networks Inc .http /www .eric .ed .gov /ERICDocs /data /ericdocs2sql /content_storage_01 /0000019b /80 /1a /11 /19 .pdf (Koehoorn , 2002 . It could not be prevented that once an employee is absent problems occur such as finding someone who will be able to temporarily perform the duties and responsibilities of the absent employee . The organization is affected because the delegation of tasks is disrupted

The present shortages in the workforce in healthcare system threaten the capacity of the industry to sustain the increasing healthcare demands To be able to maintain the provision of quality healthcare services appropriate actions must be undertaken to address this problem . A healthy working environment must be provided to recruit new members of the healthcare work force as well as retain the old ones . The environment in healthcare institutions must promote workplace health so as to improve the well-being of the employees . The interventions that for the problems in the healthcare workforce should be able to overcome these challenges ADDIN EN .CITE Committee7Health Care Workforce Policy Advisory CommitteeGeorgia Department of Community HealthP r o m o t i n g H e a l t h C a r e Wo r k

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