Professional Development in the Healthcare System

This presentation provides an understanding of professional development in the healthcare system, discussing factors contributing to tensions among healthcare team members, the relevance of LeapFrog findings in choosing the best medical care, and the advantages and disadvantages of healthcare development. It explores the conflicts among governance, medical staff, the board of trustees, and administration, and highlights the benefits and drawbacks of establishing competitive, freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers and specialty hospitals. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of healthcare development in providing quality care to patients.

Professional
Development in
the healthcare
system

Introduction
• The primary purpose of the presentation is to provide an
understanding of professional development in healthcare
• It will discuss the factors that result in conflicts among
healthcare team members
• It will provide relevance of the findings provided by LeapFrog
that helps in choosing the best medical care
• It will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
healthcare development

Factors contributing to the tensions that
exist among governance, medical staff,
the board of trustees, and administration
• The governing bodies of the hospital and the medical staff must
have mutual interest and collaborate for providing quality care
• Tension arises from the hospital board for refusing to adopt
medical staff amendments and bylaws (Almost et al., 2016)
• The differences in the opinions also increase conflict between
them
• There possess misconceptions that medical administration cares
only about profit and doctors avoids change

Continued…
• The levels of traits like sociodemographic aspects, trait anxiety and
levels of training also contributes tensions among these people
• Board of trustees and hospital administration fails to fulfil the
needs of the medical staff that leads to conflict
• Promotional activities by considering qualification, age and gender
also generates tensions among the groups
• Partiality in the selection process is also a contributing factor that
results in tension

Continued…
• Ethical conflicts take place when the board of trustees
conjoins clinical and professional interests with corporate
duties and roles
• Even though sufficient advice is available to boards on
what is to be done, diverse expectations of the board's
purposes result in conflicting advice
• The medical staffs are pressurized by the hospital
administration and board of trustees to bring change

Continued…
• Maintaining hospital status and bringing innovation is the
significant reason behind tension among medical staff and
hospital administration
• Another factor is the development of control systems and
standardization of health services
• Managing organizational sustainability and social mission
also leads to creating tensions among these groups

Opinion regarding the findings of
LeapFrog Group based on survey and
report
• The findings from the survey and report conducted by
LeapFrog helps the public in choosing adequate medical
care as it analyzes the patient's quality and safety
• It provides information on how hospitals handle critical
issues that help the public to decide where to seek care
• Data is collected and served more easily and transparently
to access a forum that empowers public

Continued…
• The patients are provided with different sources of
information regarding hospital quality that helps in
choosing the best facility considering this information
• It also provides safe practice survey report and consumer-
oriented hospital quality report
• It serves relevant information regarding the actions taken
by hospital executives to implement and support safety
practices

Continued…
• It analyzes the quality and safety of near about 5,600 surgery departments
each year
• It focuses on patient experiences and surgical outcomes within the
surgical centres to help patients choose appropriate medical care (Kim et
al., 2017)
• The information based on the finding consist of the equipment's used by
the different hospitals along with benefits and drawbacks (Whitham,
Cruickshank, Coupe, Wareing & Pérez, 2019)
• It provides appropriate information regarding Medicare and emergency
transfer rate

Advantages and disadvantages of establishing competitive, free-
standing diagnostic and treatment centers and specialty hospitals
Advantages
• The competitive and free-standing diagnostic and treatment centres charge
less price for ambulatory processes
• Specialty hospitals serve focused healthcare services to treat patients who
need specific technology and skills
• Specialty hospitals facilitate high levels of quality in comparison with
general hospitals
• Free-standing diagnostic pathways conjoin the principles of reflective testing
and stepwise reflex to satisfy medical and patient requirements

Continued…
• Competitive and free-standing diagnostic and treatment centres
provide high-standard and quick services
• Specialty hospitals minimizes medical complications and treat
critical health conditions
• Such hospitals provides financial benefits and clinical
appropriateness that helps patients to decide appropriate
treatment settings and options (Carey, Burgess Jr & Young, 2015)
• In specialty hospitals, patients are served with therapy programs,
resources and extraordinary expertise

Benefits due to the development
of specialty hospitals

Continued…
Disadvantages
• Specialty hospitals are not available in every state due to market-specific
conditions
• It becomes difficult for a specialty hospital to operate in different states
• The competitive and free-standing and treatment centres are costlier for
patients who are out of network reach
• It is rarely facilitated with Medicaid and Medicare
• It possesses weak referral drivers and needs a certificate of requirement

Conclusion
• The presentation concludes that misconception,
differences in opinions and many more are the
contributing factors that lead to tensions among
healthcare members
• It is observed that the findings presented by LeapFrog
help patients to choose the best medical care
• It states the fact that healthcare development provides
quality care to patients

References
•Almost, J., Wolff, A. C., Stewart‐Pyne, A., McCormick, L. G., Strachan, D., & D'souza,
C. (2016). Managing and mitigating conflict in healthcare teams: an integrative
review. Journal of advanced nursing, 72(7), 1490-1505.
•Carey, K., Burgess Jr, J. F., & Young, G. J. (2015). Economies of scale and scope: the
case of specialty hospitals. Contemporary Economic Policy, 33(1), 104-117.
•Kim, S., Bochatay, N., Relyea-Chew, A., Buttrick, E., Amdahl, C., Kim, L., ... & Lee, Y.
M. (2017). Individual, interpersonal, and organisational factors of healthcare conflict:
a scoping review. Journal of interprofessional care, 31(3), 282-290.
•Whitham, R., Cruickshank, L., Coupe, G., Wareing, L. E., & Pérez, D. (2019). Health
and Wellbeing: Challenging Co-Design for Difficult Conversations, Successes and
Failures of the Leapfrog Approach. The Design Journal, 22(sup1), 575-587.