Health workforce
Job satisfaction has been linked to various aspects of patient care and health system outcomes as well as to general life satisfaction and job performance. Job satisfaction has been discussed in relation to issues such as high turnover of nursing staff, potential loss of productivity resulting from turnover and movement away from the nursing entirely. Low job satisfaction has been linked to high turnover of nurses with resultant loss of productivity and reduced quality of patient care. You have been asked by the CEO to provide a brief on strategies to increase the job satisfaction of nurses that could be implemented within your health service.
Analyse, Research and Write the Issue Brief of 1500 words using the ISSUE BRIEF WORD TEMPLATE attached as per the instructions contained in the Issue Brief Explanatory Notes
Issues Brief
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Issue Statement
What problem/issue needs to be resolved?
Background and Discussion
? Why does the issue exist/how did the issue originate?
? What is the situation that causes it to surface or be elevated now?
? What are the impacts of the issue?
? Who is impacted by it?
? What is the local, national or global significance?
? What are the arguments in support of and in opposition to the issue?
? What work has been undertaken around the issue and what are the results?
? What constraints exist that limit the range of alternatives to addressing the issue?
? What are the risks or ramifications of not resolving or ignoring the issue?
Options and/or Recommendations
? What are the proposed options?
– How do the options address the issue?
– What are the opposing arguments (whether they’ve been made or could be
made)
– Financial implications?
– Precedent implications?
– Political implications?
? What is the proposed approach to developing options or recommendation?
– Should a sub-team be developed to explore options and/or develop a
recommendation for resolution?
– Should the issue be delegated or elevated to another leadership team?
– Other method/approach to develop options or a recommendation?
? What is the proposed recommendation or solution?
– How does the proposed recommendation resolve the issue?
– What are the benefits?
– What are the risks?
– What are the opposing arguments?
– Financial implications?
– Precedent implications?
– Political implications?
Implementation
? How will the solution be implemented?
? Who will implement?
? What are the key steps or deliverables involved?
? What are the timeframes for implementation?
? What criteria would define success in resolving this issue?
Communication
? Who needs to know?
? How will the recommendation be communicated?
? Is a communication plan needed? (if so, attach a communications plan as an appendix)
? Who needs to approve this communications plan?
References used to inform this Issue Brief
