Challenges Faced by Canadian Healthcare System Due to Lack of Human Resource Management

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Introduction
Human resources can be defined as one of the core building blocks of the health system. They
involve nursing professionals, physicians, midwives, dentists, community health workers, allied
health professionals as well as other healthcare providers. The field of health human resources
often deals with problems that include planning, development, management, retention,
information as performance (Mossialos et al., 2016). The healthcare industry has always been
operated under a certain amount of pressure. In the recent years, enhancing the awareness of the
crucial role of the Healthcare Human resource is strengthening the health system performance. It
is also enhancing health and wellbeing of the population. Hence, placing the efficient health
workforce is the global health agenda. In order to deal with the above mentioned issues it is
highly crucial for healthcare organization to ensure effective human resource leadership
(Creamer & Austin, 2017). Leadership in health human resource in Canada is lacking effective
training and guidance. In order to deal with this, effective leadership strategies are required in the
human resource departments of Canadian healthcare organization. In the following paragraph
detailed analysis and evaluation of the issue that is lack of appropriate human resource
management in the Canadian Healthcare system will be performed. This broad aspect of the
study has been chosen in order to find out the challenges faced the mentioned industry associated
with health care and the organizations plans to deal with the same. Along with this, effective
recommendations to deal with the mentioned issue will also be discussed in this issue paper. For
this study information has been collected from academic literatures that are relevant to the
research topic. While searching for information and academic articles, articles that are published
within 8 to 10 years has been take. This has been done in order to ensure the relevancy of the
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.The aim of this paper is to present a balanced view of a situation or dilemma in which both sides
of the situation are clearly articulated. The issue paper is related to course content that follows
the framework from the textbook - Framing and Analysing the Issue.
Discussion
Every year, thousands of health professionals are found to be graduated from the
Canadian health Education system. The four major challenges faced by the mentioned
organization include shortage of staffs, high turnover rates, employee burnouts as well as lack of
training and development. The fact that the performance of a healthcare system is highly
dependent on the skills and motivation of the health care service providers who are responsible
for delivering the healthcare service cannot be ignored. In Canada, healthcare is delivered
through thirteen provinces as we as territorial system of publicly funded healthcare care.
Majority of the healthcare service is free for individuals who possess the public health insurance.
An individual who is a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident are eligible for obtaining the
mentioned insurance (Anteh, 2018). However, the Canada healthcare act does not cover home
care, long term care or prescription drugs. While the healthcare system has always been the pride
for the Canadian government, in recent years, Canadian healthcare system is facing a good
number of issues that is hampering its performance, delivery as well as reputation across the
world. In the following paragraphs issues that are hampering the productivity, performance and
reputation of the Canadian healthcare home will be discussed.
Shortage of employees
One of the most crucial results of the issue of lack of appropriate human resource
management includes shortage of employees. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, more

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than 203000 new registered nurses will be required within the year 2026 in order to fill the newly
created position as well a to replace the nurses who will be retiring soon. It is estimated that
within the year 2022, more than 1.2 million vacancies for nursing position will be there. Bezin et
al., (2017) stated that a good number of factors are responsible for the mentioned issue.
The chief reason behind the lack of employees in the Canadian Healthcare system is the
aging population. As the baby boomer member of the society is aging, the number of healthcare
issues is emerging. This in turn is enhancing the workload of the healthcare system. However,
like any other countries with aging population, Canada is lacking the required workforce due to
lower number of working population. This in turn has resulted in higher stress and workforce on
the existing population. Mossialos et al., (2016) have pointed out that lack of registered nurses is
also resulting due to the fact more than 45 percent of the existing nurse are above the age range
of 30 to 45 years. Along with this, lack of supply of the healthcare human resource from the local
and national level labour market to fulfil the increasing demand of the healthcare service users
have added up the issue faced by the organization. This shortage has left the employers highly
desperate for differentiating themselves as well as for attracting potential and skilled employees.
Lack of required employees is resulting in deterioration of the healthcare service
provided by the public healthcare sectors of Canada. According to Muscedere et al., (2016) while
majority of the Canadian residents possess timely access to the world class care for urgent a well
as emergency issues like heart attacks, cancer care or stroke, for less urgent health issues, they
typically needs to wait as long as many months or even years. Along with this high workload on
the employees is enhancing their stress level and job satisfaction. Thus the attrition rate of the
employees is getting increased. This further diminished the number of registered nurses in the
healthcare organizations.