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Project Management: An Essential Tool for Implementing Integrated Information Technology in Healthcare
Available on-line in December, 2001: Application of an Impact of Restructuring Scale to the Healthcare Sphere
Federal Governance in Emergency Management in Canada: Quo Vadis?
by Esther R. Greenglass and Ronald J. Burke
by Denis H. J. Caro and Demetrios Angelis
Abstract
Abstract
Job loss and job insecurity are frequently associated with today’s widespread restructuring and downsizing of the workplace. The authors have developed an Impact of Restructuring Scale that quantifies the effects of restructuring in the healthcare sphere. The scale documents the effects of the resulting cutbacks, hospital mergers and hospital closings on two areas: quality of healthcare services and effects on staff. The study described in this article applies the scale to the healthcare sphere as reported in a sample of 1,363 nurses employed in hospitals that were being restructured. The nurses returned a self-report questionnaire in which they reported their reactions on a variety of measures designed to assess extent of restructuring initiatives, stressors, hospital support, job satisfaction and distress. Results showed that predictors of the impact of restructuring on nurses include restructuring initiatives undertaken by the hospital, deterioration of hospital facilities and services, work stressors (e.g., workload, bumping, use of generic workers) and social support. Hospital restructuring was also associated with lower job security, diminished job satisfaction and increase in depression, anxiety and somatization.
Emergency management has become a focus of scientific study on how to better understand the hazards that shape our natural and constructed environments in order to establish standards for a safer world. It comprises the body of knowledge, policy and practice associated with humanitarian responses to both natural and technological disasters and emergencies. Its objective is to decrease the vulnerability of Canadian communities through improved access to emergency services, information, education and empowerment. In this article, we explore several important emergency management issues concerned with information support that require an examination of the basic tenets of emergency governance in Canada.
Project Management: An Essential Tool for Implementing Integrated Information Technology in Healthcare by Paul K. Chittick and D. David Persaud
Abstract Implementing organizational change can be a difficult process. Managers continue to search for innovative methods to implement improvement initiatives. Project management, a framework that has been used to successfully guide project implementation in several business sectors, is now also being employed in healthcare to implement large-scale change. This article provides healthcare managers with an overview of project management and a description of how it can be used to implement integrated health information systems successfully.
Healthcare Management Forum Gestion des soins de santé
51
Federal Governance in Emergency Management in Canada: Quo Vadis?
by Esther R. Greenglass and Ronald J. Burke
by Denis H. J. Caro and Demetrios Angelis
Abstract
Abstract
Job loss and job insecurity are frequently associated with today’s widespread restructuring and downsizing of the workplace. The authors have developed an Impact of Restructuring Scale that quantifies the effects of restructuring in the healthcare sphere. The scale documents the effects of the resulting cutbacks, hospital mergers and hospital closings on two areas: quality of healthcare services and effects on staff. The study described in this article applies the scale to the healthcare sphere as reported in a sample of 1,363 nurses employed in hospitals that were being restructured. The nurses returned a self-report questionnaire in which they reported their reactions on a variety of measures designed to assess extent of restructuring initiatives, stressors, hospital support, job satisfaction and distress. Results showed that predictors of the impact of restructuring on nurses include restructuring initiatives undertaken by the hospital, deterioration of hospital facilities and services, work stressors (e.g., workload, bumping, use of generic workers) and social support. Hospital restructuring was also associated with lower job security, diminished job satisfaction and increase in depression, anxiety and somatization.
Emergency management has become a focus of scientific study on how to better understand the hazards that shape our natural and constructed environments in order to establish standards for a safer world. It comprises the body of knowledge, policy and practice associated with humanitarian responses to both natural and technological disasters and emergencies. Its objective is to decrease the vulnerability of Canadian communities through improved access to emergency services, information, education and empowerment. In this article, we explore several important emergency management issues concerned with information support that require an examination of the basic tenets of emergency governance in Canada.
Project Management: An Essential Tool for Implementing Integrated Information Technology in Healthcare by Paul K. Chittick and D. David Persaud
Abstract Implementing organizational change can be a difficult process. Managers continue to search for innovative methods to implement improvement initiatives. Project management, a framework that has been used to successfully guide project implementation in several business sectors, is now also being employed in healthcare to implement large-scale change. This article provides healthcare managers with an overview of project management and a description of how it can be used to implement integrated health information systems successfully.
Healthcare Management Forum Gestion des soins de santé
51