Education in Healthcare:
The health care system has been characterized with several issues in the recent past including increased costs, poor patient outcomes, shortage in the number of health workers across every category, and under-utilization of health workers. While lack of access to care and increased demand for health care choices are also major issues in this sector, workforce issues will continue to have tremendous impacts on health care delivery. According to the findings of a recent report, dysfunction in private and public health workforce policy and infrastructure contributes to vulnerabilities for health workers and puts the health of the nation at risk (Kreitzer, Kligler & Meeker, 2009). In addition, the current health care system consist inequities and misrepresentations that have continued to affect health workforce.
Health workforce is mainly influenced by the current system of healthcare education, which is characterized with certain challenges. The modern education in healthcare deters younger generations from entering the health profession. This occurs in various ways including decreased access to education, dangerous working environments, debt, and compensation issues. Furthermore, there is a lack of national leadership and arrangement among various academic, accrediting, and licensure agencies. These factors combine to contribute to inadequacy of the health workforce due to the shortage of professionals such as nurses. In light of the increase in diversity and aging, there is a great need for more health workers to address the ever-growing health needs of the public. Health care education does not encourage the entrance of more people into this profession, which contributes to the need for more staff. As compared to other professions, health care is the most under-staffed sector with a great need for more workers.
The lack of adequate staffing to meet the ever-growing health needs of the population in turn affects the quality of health care delivery. Actually, there is a huge number of patients who need care services than can be met by the current health care workers. As a result, health care workers tend to be over-worked and fatigued, which leads to inability to provide high-quality care services. The lack of enough health…
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References:
Kreitzer, M.J., Kligler, B. & Meeker, W.C. (2009, February). Health Professions Education and Integrative Health Care. Retrieved from Institute of Medicine of the National Academies website: http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Quality/IntegrativeMed/Health%20Professions%20Education%20and%20Integrative%20HealthCare.pdf
Morganti, N. (2013, September 13). What Does it Take to Ready a Healthcare Workforce for Transformation to a Patient Centered Team-based Care Model? Retrieved from Health IT website: http://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/meaningful-use/ready-healthcare-workforce-transformation-patient-centered-teambased-care-model/
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