Hospitals are large public organization that can benefit from instituting best practices/ best fit policies. Employees and management face significant challenges due to patient-employee relationship, technological changes, and financial, social, cultural and environmental constraints. Government legalisation and professional organizations such as the CAN provide best practice guidelines (BPGs) for nurses to …show more content…
HR, nurses and other health care professional collect and document information from patients. These information may be illegibly written in insecure notebooks, get damage or lost. Wrong or missing information can result in poor patient care. Many hospitals have started to use technology to store patient information electronically. HR can be involved in the selection and training of employees. They can establish protocol of use of this new technology. An electronic patient record is always legible, can be made secure and is readily accessible to those who need it. Reduction in the use of paper has economic and environmental benefits. Patient can play an active role in his /her treatment by accessing, adding, and managing health-related data, thereby supporting care (Hoerbst & Ammenwerth, 2010). Electronic records can be easily transferred with the patient if he or she moves to another treatment …show more content…
HR Practice that contribute…... Bodies such as the RNA has entrenched ethical best practice/best fit policies. Promoting the importance of ethics can start from the recruiting and interviewing processes. HR should hire persons who are honest and are likely to do their duties in an ethical manner. Training about ethical behaviour should be a best practice/best fit course that all employees and management should take yearly. Employees and management who demonstrates good ethical behaviour can be global ambassadors to subsidiaries. Best fit practices should take into consideration the cultural and environmental makeup of the workplace. Penalties for unethical behaviours should be severe enough to act as a strong