NURS 6241: STRATEGIC PLANNING IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS - Final Complete Project
Running head: SWOT ANALYSIS 1
SWOT Analysis: Using Advancement in Technological Skills in Addressing an Unmet Need at Green Hills Health Center
NURS 6241: STRATEGIC PLANNING IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS
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Strengths
With adoption of technological advancement skills by its staff, Green Hills Health System will feature improved care delivery and better quality of handling health issues. Increased use of technology in health care does not necessarily translate to better health care, but it is a sure step towards better performance and better health care based on the type of services that the facility can offer its patients (Cappelli, 2013). Competent staff is the other strength that Green Hills Health System will have over competitors. Competence in technology use translates to faster, efficient and highly reliable services that further promote care quality. The consequence of this is that this directly translates to more satisfied patients.
Weaknesses
The process of knowledge acquisition involves training of staff subsequently after issue identity. The process is naturally expensive and time consumer for the institution and the staff in the project. The repercussion of this lies in fewer cases of medical intervention during the project phase and possible under-delivery as the focus will be shifted to care delivery to cover knowledge acquisition process. Sare & Ogilvie (2010) state that more technological advancement implies increased the cost of health care as well as skill attainment. If the project is not well articulated there is possibility of this weakness getting even worse by losing staff retention especially on the part of the staff that may not be able to afford skill acquisition education.
Opportunity
Despite the challenges that a technologically incapacitated health care organization may have there is an abundance of room for improvement such as in the case of Green Hills Health System. The opportunities take the form of better and skilled staff, training of the staff that is already available at the facility and improving care quality by offering better equipment (Henderson, Davis, Smith & King, 2014). Skill acquisition when engaged in surpasses the original goals as each day there is a chance to increase knowledge in the new skills that continue to emerge. Having the opportunity to take on staff for training and skill acquisition, therefore, increases the chances of even more advancement and discoveries for the health care staff and the health care organizations. A possible exploration of these opportunities places the team in a better position above its competitors.
Threats
External competition from already technologically qualified health care facilities is one significant threat. These have better quality care, more clients, and technically skilled staff that threaten resource balancing (Cappelli, 2013. The other threat to this type of health care facility is in the resource allocation and public policies on the issues of health care. Currently, knowledge acquisition is left to the particular organization and the individual to pursue. Balicer et al. (2011), state that this acts as a threat therefore as not everyone can afford the kind of health care. That being the case the opportunity and resources of knowledge enhancement are further reduced. The risk increases the weaknesses and even emphasizes them to the extent of lost hope of redemption among the resourcefully unable staff at the facility. Additionally skill increase could lead to lose of faithful patients based on increase in care provision which is a direct result of technological advancement. Technological advancement leads to improved health care quality as the quality of life is increased, and professionals can do things faster and more efficiently (Sare & Ogilvie, 2010). Much as this is the case, there are a lot of negative impacts that are foreseeable for this project. Expensive cost of health care means that fewer people will visit the facility to seek cheaper alternatives and therefore they increase the likelihood of closing these business entities
Finally, the realized strengths and weakness also pose as opportunities for such health care organizations in the strategic planning process. These are opportunities in that the need for education and skill acquisition increases the need for innovation and expansion of presently existing knowledge (Henderson et al., 2014). Its strength can also pose as opportunities for better management of health care systems. Medical facilities are constantly in need of intervention methods that are safer and yet compatible with the present regimes. In conclusion, SWOT analysis of a situation, service and on this case project implementation strategic plan to get direction of where one wants to head to and the significant steps to arriving at a solution.
References
Balicer, R. D., Shadmi, E., Lieberman, N., Greenberg-Dotan, S., Goldfracht, M., Jana, L., . . . Jacobson, O. (2011). Reducing health disparities: Strategy planning and implementation in Israel's largest health care organization. Health Services Research, 46(4), 1281–1299. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Cappelli, P. H. (2015). Skill gaps, skill shortages, and skill mismatches: Evidence and arguments for the United States. ILR Review, 68(2), 251-290.
Henderson, K., Davis, T. C., Smith, M., & King, M. (2014). Nurse practitioners in telehealth: bridging the gaps in healthcare delivery. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(10), 845-850.
Sare, M. V., & Ogilvie, L. (2010). Strategic planning for nurses: Change management in health care. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.