Why is there a scarcity of financial resources in the hospital to cater for adequate employees’ salaries?
Prolonged Hospital Stays
Prolonged hospital stays (LOS) continue to be a significant concern in many hospitals worldwide, with substantial consequences for patient safety, treatment quality, and overall health outcomes. Delaying patients in the hospital for longer than necessary, the costs, dangers, and levels of patient dissatisfaction all increase. Long-term hospitalization is expensive, particularly for young people. It is one of the most challenging challenges hospitals face in many countries, ensuring that there is no holding of patients in the hospital for too long. When a hospital stay is appropriate, it indicates tailoring the patients’ medical needs. This review uses the 5-analysis to solve patient care due to more extended hospital waiting time.
The average length of stay was 100 minutes to our observations. According to Chang et al. (2020), the management and employee are significant factors associated with the duration of stay. Using a Fish Bone Diagram, we examined several latent organizational factors that prolonged this time. We arranged the components into five main groups using the Fish Bone Diagram approach: registration, workers, management, patients, and equipment concerns. The variables were classified using surveys, patient feedback, and observation. Hospital occupancy rates are often associated with long wait times at the organizational level. Management and staff seem to be two of the most critical difficulties, with a total wait time of 80 minutes. The amount of time spent waiting is affected by organizational difficulties such as standardization and process, communication failures, documentation of files, and workload.
5-Why Analysis
The problem
| Increased waiting time |
Why 1
| Registration takes long |
Why 2
| Patients take more time |
Why 3
| Management takes more time |
Why 4
| The employee takes more time |
Why 5
| Equipment’s delayed the waiting time |
Patients’ waiting time is increasing owing to the lack of pens and professionals to assist them in filling out papers. The engagement of more workers to assist in filling out forms should address this problem. Hospitals should restrict unnecessary visits, and more employees should be employed to meet the increased demand. Supervision of managers should be done appropriately to guarantee their quality of work. To decrease the amount of time patients spend waiting, there should be an increase in the workforce to remove redundant responsibilities. Hospitals should improve communication and digitize paperwork. The procurement of new equipment should accompany the replacement of obsolete equipment. Hospitals should outsource the profession to repair any damaged equipment. Overall, there will be a reduction of up to 20 minutes of waiting time by implementing these measures.
ANALYZE PHASE OF THE PROJECT.
Identifying the Root Causes using the 5-Whys Analysis
Registration
- Why is there an increased waiting time in the hospital?
– Because of the much time is taken during the registration process.
- Why is much time wasted during the registration process?
-Because there are no staff to assist the patients in filling the registration forms
- Why are there no staff to assist the patients in filling the registration forms?
-Because of the scarcity of employees in the hospital.
- Why is there a scarcity of employees in the hospital?
-Because the hospital has employed few medical staff
- Why has the hospital employed few medical staff?
-Because of the scarcity of finance to pay off the adequate medical staff
Employees
- Why is there an increased time in the hospital?
-Because of multiple tasks handled by the medical staff.
- Why do medical staff handle multiple tasks?
-Because of the scarcity of medical employees in the hospital
- Why is there a scarcity of medical employees in the hospital?
- Because the hospital has employed few medical staff.
- Why have the hospital employed few medical staff?
- Because of the scarcity of financial resources to cater for adequate employees’ salary.
- Why is there a scarcity of financial resources in the hospital to cater for adequate employees’ salaries?
- Because of misuse of the available financial resources in the hospital
Patients
- Why is there an increased time in the hospital?
-Because of lack of appointments before visiting the hospital.
- Why is there lack of appointments arrangement regarding visiting the hospital
-Because the hospital management has not implemented the booking of appointments system.
- Why has the hospital management not yet implemented the booking appointment system?
-Because of poor management in the hospital
- Why is there poor management in the hospital?
-Because of employment of incompetent managers
- Why are incompetent managers employed?
-Because of corruption in the hospital
Identifying the possible solutions to the root causes
