Nursing Leadership: Addressing Staff Shortages and Layoffs in Healthcare

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Nursing leadership
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Introduction
The fundamental purpose of the paper is to address the issues such as staff shortages and
layoffs that result in a decline in revenues that are faced by the organization. It will focus on the
influence of these issues in the ancillary department of the organization and how improving
collaboration and communication will improve the condition of the department.
Informing staff regarding the two issues
The two issues that are faced by the leaders of health care settings are as follows:
Staff Shortage (Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Providers, Ancillary Services)
Staff shortage is determined to be an ongoing problem that is faced by most of the
healthcare organizations in the United States, which makes serving patient-care a difficult task.
Allied Health Providers, nurses and physicians, along with other healthcare practitioners, are
required to maintain the provision of individualized healthcare service (Feo & Kitson, 2016).
However, from the past two years, the organization is facing challenges related to staff shortages.
Shortage of advancement in professional medical enrollment is the major reason behind staff
shortages.
Layoffs as a Result of Declining Revenues
Furthermore, from the past three years, the organization is also facing issues related to
layoffs that lead to a decline in revenues. The organization has implemented layoffs by
decreasing the healthcare costs that resulted in a decrease in its revenues.
Impact of these issues on the department
Workforce education and planning are inappropriate and poorly integrated within the
healthcare services. However, staff shortages in ancillary service department create an adverse
impact on the quality of care served to the patients (Burke, Ng & Wolpin, 2015). This issue will
also influence the expertise and skill level required by nurses. Moreover, in the absence of a