The professional recruitment brochure has been designed for newly licensed nurses, nurses changing specialties, and nurses who decided to change their organizations. It dwells on the governance principles, the leadership model expected from all nurses, and describes procedures for creating a healthy work environment built on trust and mutual accountability of all its members. The brochure emphasizes the core structural components that secure and regulate the work of nurses in the organization.
Care Delivery Model
The organization utilizes the integrated managed care delivery system, which implies the specific way of financing and the health care delivery paradigm (Fernandez, Johnson, Tran, & Miranda, 2012). The managed care concepts are appointed by the provider network to furnish care to the enrollees. The following model implies facilities and providers a variety of health care services, programs for the improvement of the quality, and a system of financial encouragements for nurses (Rhéaume et. al., 2015). In this model, the fees are negotiable due to the cost-effectiveness of the health care providers, and the organization carries out the case, utilization, and disease management, together with patient education.
Employee Benefits
The company offers a flexible health insurance plan on a pre-tax basis for the employees, their spouses, and children. Members are eligible for choosing the most suitable coverage for their families themselves. Apart from that, the organization provides disability insurance on either long- or short-term basis to advocate against the loss of income in case of the employee’s disability (Tomajan, 2012). The vacation time and holidays are paid for, as well as sick leave (Molyneux, 2011). Moreover, the company has established a system of incentives for employees willing to continue lifelong learning; however, the incentives have terms and conditions applied. The retirement plan requires that employees have at least one thousand working hours per year in general.
Safety Measures
To ensure the safest work environment for its employees, the organization applies the following: administration leadership, environmental hazard preventing strategy, and worker-patient safety measures (Barnsteiner, 2011). The first category implies eliminating hazards through employee education as well as training in injury prevention. The safety measures include techniques for patients equipment transfer or lifting, and the system of early musculoskeletal or other injuries reporting (Barnsteiner, 2011). The second category implies providing various devices for safe and convenient work environment and guidelines for preventing all types of infections and sharp injuries. The third category obliges all the employees to report hazards or injuries at work and complies with the procedures of the safer work environment.
Empowering Nurses at the Bedside
The organization focuses on empowering the bedside nurses to give feedback on quality improvements of care. The special team assists nurses in assessing patients’ condition and enables the special team to intervene in case it would be considered necessary (Bicking, 2011; Molyneux, 2011). The nurses are empowered to call for public policies and contribute to the safety of patients within their competence. Additionally, the nurses are encouraged to provide quality changes on behalf of their patients.
The current brochure is a formal document that ensures nurse inclusion into high-quality healthcare performance. It promotes the principles of the shared governance to conduct auspicious nursing outcomes. The brochure facilitates the dialogue between the staff and the leaders of the organization to achieve a joint understanding of the work environment and promotes the best practices for creating secure working conditions.
References
Barnsteiner, J. (2011) Teaching the culture of safety. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 16(3): 1-15.
Bicking, C. (2011). Empowering nurses to participate in ethical decision-making at the bedside. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 42(1): 19-24.
Fernandez, R., Johnson, M., Tran, D., T. & Miranda, C. (2012). Models of care in nursing: A systematic review. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 10(4): 324–337.
Molyneux, J. (2011). Nurses’ job satisfaction linked to patient satisfaction. American Journal of Nursing, 111(5): 16.
Rhéaume, A., Dionne, S., Gaudet, D., Allain, M., Belliveau, E., Boudreau, L., & Brown, L. (2015). The changing boundaries of nursing: A qualitative study of the transition to a new nursing care delivery model. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(17-18): 2529–2537.
Tomajan, K. (2012). Advocating for nurses and nursing. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 17(1): 1-12.