Essay - Organizational Communication Interview Overview—management in Health Care for the Purposes...

Organizational Communication

Interview Overview—Management in Health Care

***** the purposes of this assignment, I interviewed an individual at a local hospital, to ask them, from a m*****nagement perspective, wh***** the challenges were in the present health care industry. Overall, when assured of confidentiality, ***** individual responded to me that ***** care presents so***** ***** the most difficult emotional and practical challenges, from a management *****, for any *****-level administrator. One of the ***** difficult organizational communication challenges is negotiating ***** completely different perspectives of the health care professionals in the arena of care, such as the doctors and nurses, with individuals at ***** hospital primarily concerned ***** cutting costs ***** fulfilling administr*****ive, rather than care giving functions.

*****, even doctors, nurses, and other practitioners primarily ***** with care can be at odds amongst themselves. In today's cost-cutting environment, nurses are often called upon to perform the tasks of doctors. This can cause anger on the part of the doctors, ***** also anger ***** ***** ***** of the nurses who *****lieve that their diagnostic and treatment capabilities are not accorded enough respect. Also, physician's assistants are increasingly asked to fulfill the functions ***** nurses, which *****s organizational conflict, as well as the fact that physician assistants are asked to perform, quite often, the tasks of aids, despite their job description. Mediation and an adequate counseling *****d human resource staff has provided some relief.

Additional challenges for staff members relate to the ***** arcane referral system at local hospitals, which are *****ten misunderstood by both patients and **********. It is often tempting for individuals responsible for the financial management of the hospital to sacrifice care, to preserve budgetary needs and constraints, and it ***** *****ten tempting ***** *****s and nurses to attempt to circumvent the ***** protocols of insurance referrals, in the interest of preserving ***** best care for *****, but putting the hospital at financial and legal risk. ***** between ***** arms of the hospital is essential in meeting these *****. Frequent ***** meetings to keep doctors and ***** abreast ***** the often arcane language of the insurance *****, and of the ***** and public relations state of the ***** is just as necessary as keeping other budgetary and administrative members aware of the changes and challenges in the health care