(BQ) Continued part 1, part 2 of the document Health care management - Introduction (Third edition) has contents: Managing health care professionals, the strategic management of human resources, health care management case studies and guidelines, special topics and emerging issues in health care management, and other contents. Invite you to refer. | Health care management - Introduction (Third edition): Part 2 CHAPTER 11 Managing Health Care Professionals Sharon B. Buchbinder and Dale Buchbinder LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this chapter, the student will be able to: Distinguish among the education, training, and credentialing of physicians, nurses, nurse aides, midlevel practitioners, and allied health professionals; Deconstruct factors affecting the supply of and demand for health care professionals; Analyze reasons for health care professional turnover and costs of turnover; Propose strategies for increasing retention and preventing turnover of health care professionals; Create a plan to prevent conflict of interest in a health care setting; Examine issues associated with the management of the work life of physicians, nurses, nurses’ aides, midlevel practitioners, and allied health professionals; and Investigate sources of data for health workforce issues. INTRODUCTION Health care organizations employ a wide array of clinical, administrative, and support professionals to deliver services to their patients. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicated that there were close to 16 million jobs in hospitals, offices of health practitioners, nursing and residential care facilities, home health care services, and outpatient settings (Torpey, 2014). The largest employment setting in health care is hospitals and the largest category of health care workers is registered nurses, with million jobs, 61% of which are in hospitals (BLS, 2014h). According to the BLS, there were 691,400 physicians and surgeons who held jobs in 2012 (BLS, 2014e). Increasingly, physicians are choosing to practice in large groups or to be employed by hospitals, rather than in solo or small practices. In 2013, Jackson Healthcare re-conducted a survey of physicians and found 26% were employed by hospitals, an increase of 6% over the previous year. Ownership stakes in .
