Improving productive efficiency in health services

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Improving productive efficiency in health services
Paper selected: Ding, D.X., 2014. The effect of experience, ownership and focus on
productive efficiency: A longitudinal study of US hospitals. Journal of Operations
Management, 32(1-2), pp.1-14.
Summary of the paper
The research was initiated with a hypothesis that that if a healthcare organisation
facilitates the formation of a learning environment with the specific focus on the clinical
knowledge improvement of the nursing professionals then the productive efficiency of the
nurses in increased significantly. In order to test their hypothesis, the authors tested the
performance data of more than 3700 U.S hospitals during the tenure of 1996 to 2010. The
analysis of the results supported their proposed hypothesis.
Practice and policy change
According to the Nursing and the Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) (2018) as
per the professional code of conduct, the nursing professionals must strive for the continuous
professional development. Continuous professional development mainly refers to the staying
updated about the current research and the evidence based practice in nursing. The
government of Australia provides special educational straining to the entry level registered
nurse in order to improve their level of clinical knowledge. The training of the enrolled
nurses mainly take place in the form of the vocational education and training sector rather
than in the university sector. The prospective enrolled nurses undertake a Diploma
qualification (Australian Government Department of Health 2013).