Workforce Strategy #3: Adopt Policies For Skilled Staff To Practice At The Top Of Their License

Jack Welch said, “If we get the right people in the right job, we’ve won the game.” In health care, both regulation and tradition are often an impediment to the “right people.” Where possible, organizations should review the relevant regulations for scope of practice for their licensed team members—and move to delivery system models that focus the majority of their time on the most skilled portions of their clinical practice. This will require reassessing clinical workflows as well as policies and procedures, and “selling” new models of care to clinical managers.

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