Staffing Practices and Challenges in Nursing: An Interview Study

This report discusses the findings of an interview conducted with 5 unit managers of Eastern Hospitals regarding staffing practices and challenges in nursing. The interview explores changes in practices based on best evidence, the biggest challenges faced by unit managers in staffing, preferred job roles, organizational culture, and more.

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Introduction
In the organization, staffing is used as managerial function of selection, training, recruitment,
personnel commendation, and promotions. It is determined as the procedure of hiring and
selecting a suitable person to fill different organizational positions. This report discusses the
findings of an interview that is conducted on 5 unit manager of Eastern Hospitals. The
researcher could get prior permission of the participant’s before starting the research study.
Interview question
A. Can you share some practices that have been changed in the previous year that is
relied on the recent best evidence?
B. What does your biggest challenge faced by a unit manager in staffing?
C. Which kind of job you most like in your organization?
D. Why did you choose this job?
E. What types of nursing job did you ever do?
F. How you describe your organization’s culture?
G. What was your role in the staffing decision?
H. Which leadership style has been used by you in the organization?
I. How digital tool is effective for Staffing in your organization?
Findings of the interview
Can you share some practices that have been changed in the previous year that is relied
on the recent best evidence?
For conducting this interview, I selected 5 unit manager of Eastern Hospitals. This tool is
effective in collecting the depth information towards the research matter. This method could
assist to the organization for attainment of the organizational task (Cherry & Jacob, 2016).
From the data analysis, it is founded that most of the research candidates believed that there
are certain issues that were changed in the previous year, which is dependent on current best

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evidence named as clinical expertise, scientific study, and patients’ value. These issues
affected the performance of hospitals. Moreover, this hospital has to face the issues of clinical
expertise, which is essential for a hospital to make higher competitive advantages. This
organization has decided to appoint skilled workforces for the attainment of productivity of
hospitals (Ellis, 2018). Most of the research participants believed that a lack of scientific
study could be imperative in the organizational task. It is examined that lack of patients’
value was major issues hence hospital could give higher value to their patients for providing
effective services to their patients. It could lead to getting higher competitive benefits (White,
Dudley-Brown, & Terhaar, 2016).
What does your biggest challenge faced by the unit manager in staffing?
Most of the unit manager face one issue in the hospitals at the time of the staffing process i.e.
selection of suitable candidates in the organization. Sometimes, it is quite hard to select
suitable candidates as they affected the overall process. The lack of less knowledge about the
organizational vacant position could also create a problem in the staffing process. In the
staffing process, it is effective for the firm to gain depth information towards the
organizational task (White, Dudley-Brown, & Terhaar, 2016).
Which kind of job you most like in your organization?
In this organization, most of the candidate like to manage the unit of nursing and inform them
towards their allocated work for the attainment of the organization tsk. Some candidate’s
believed that they love to lead a team that is possible at the time of working in the unit. It is
also founded that some of the research candidates believe that they like to communicate with
others and accept them to conduct behaviour in the favour of the organization. These
activities could support them to sustain the business for the long term.
Why did you choose this job?

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Most of the research candidates believed that the main reason for selecting this job is to that
as they are interested in encouraging others for completing any particular task. They also like
to move into any work towards its purposes and goals by assigning different activities which
are a performer by an organizational member (Scully, 2015). It is also stated that the
management could occur at the time of designing of all acts into the business acts and these
all activities is essential for them hence they selected to this method.
What types of nursing job did you ever do?
Most of the research candidates believed that the unit manager of the hospital is accountable
for the supervision of the existing staff as well as clinical setting. Hence we completed such
activities in the organization (Munshi, Florez, Huang, Kalyani, Mupanomunda, Pandya, &
Haas, 2016). Apart from this, it is also founded that there are different acts that might be
completed by the unit manager of the firm named as the set work schedules, z take the
personal decision. It could be effective for the attainment of the organization task. It is also
founded that the nursing unit is also the responsibility of the unit manager. Most of the
candidates also believed that they might care to all people who are present in the hospital for
making the positive image of the organization. The executive could manage could all
operational acts of the hospitals and provide a better solution with the specified concern for
increasing the productivity of the firm (Gopee & Galloway, 2017). Most of the candidates
also believed that the training for the nursing department is compiled by the unit manager.
How you describe your organization’s culture?
An organizational culture is an effective tool that might be affected by the overall
performance of the firm. From the data, it can be founded that the most of the research
candidates believed that organization's culture is attitudes, belief, and behaviors that are
conducted by the employees and practices on the daily basis in its allocated work. It could
determine the ways by which workforces could identifying where they work, way of

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comprehending business, and how they being an essential part of the organization (Lin,
MacLennan, Hunt, & Cox, 2015). Most of the participants also believed that this
organizational culture could be affected by the overall productivity of the firm, which will
lead to getting higher competitive advantages.
What was your role in the staffing decision?
Most of the unit manager believed that they play an imperative role in the selection of people
who will be part of the unit of a hospital. In the staffing decision, a unit manager could
choose who is suitable candidates for their unit and selected them. After the selection, a unit
manager could also give the proper training to the selected candidates and increase the
probabilities of getting success in the hospital. Thud, it can be evaluated that the staffing
decision could be an essential part of a department of the organization as it affected top the
overall productivity of the firm (Grossman & Valiga, 2016).
Which leadership style has been used by you in the organization?
From the interview, it is founded that there are many leadership styles that are practiced by
the unit manager is autocratic leadership styles. This leadership style is effective for the unit
manager of the hospitals as it allows them to complete their activities. This leadership is vital
for the attainment of the organizational task in the least time as it enables to the team leader
to perform as a task-oriented rather than people-oriented that would be effective in getting the
responses in the favor of the organization. This leadership could be most suitable as
compared to other leadership styles caused by performing suitable research acts (Fischer,
2016).
How digital tool is effective for Staffing in your organization?
In the hospital, a digital tool is effective for the staffing process in the company. Moreover,
most of the research candidates of this study feel that this tool is effective for directly
communicating with participants who will be part of the study to fill the vacant position.

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Most of the research candidates believed that this tool facility to save time as well as the cost
of business by eliminating the manual process of study. This tool could be effective for the
organization to select suitable people in the vacant seat (Daly, Jackson, Mannix, Davidson, &
Hutchinson, 2014).
Conclusion
As per the above discussion, it can be concluded that a nursing manager could play an
imperative role in improving the overall performance of the hospital. It can also be
summarized that staffing is an essential component for any business suction. It can also be
summarized that there are some activities that might be considered by the firm to conduct
their acts in the hospitals and make a decision. These are known as leadership,
communication, and team-leading. It can also be concluded that an organization could use the
digital marketing method that enables to the organization for declining their manual process
and increase the probability of hospital success.

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