Appropriate Skills Utilisation
Registered Nurses spend only 14% of their day on active nursing.
Research conducted at Netcare highlighted that Registered Nurses spent 39% of their day on administration and only 14% on active nursing. This comprehensive review of nursing staff activities arose from the need to address critical staff and skills shortages.
These results are published by the HR Research Initiative – a research programme of the South African Board of Personnel Practice (SABPP) - in support of the professionalisation of Human Resource Practitioners. The SABPP is the statutory quality assurance and registration body for Human Resource Management in South Africa.
This first published HRRI project provides the tools to support Human Resource Practitioners in playing a constructive role in meeting workplace challenges – in this case how to address the impact of skills shortages within organisations.
All too often the only response to skills shortages is: “more training”; while this remains valid, there is also the need to ensure effective use of existing skills.
Despite a comprehensive strategic programme aimed at attracting and retaining professional staff, staff turnover and skills shortages at Netcare continued. For the then Group HR Director, Italia Boninelli the challenge was: How could they best utilise the scarce skills that they had? Innovative solutions were required. A comprehensive review and re-allocation of the way tasks were combined into job descriptions followed.
The HRRI publication includes: an executive summary, a detailed case study, teaching notes for use by lecturers of academic human resource programmes, and a practitioner note providing guidance to HR practitioners on how they may workshop the case study with management teams within their organisation.
Although the case study is based on a medical organisation, the learning has general application within all organisations and comes at a time of critical skills shortages within many economic sectors. The publication is available from the South African Board of Personnel Practice. Netcare Hospital Group is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) and has grown from four hospitals at listing 1996 to a current total of 62 hospitals owned and managed by the Group. Equipped with 7200 beds, 319 operating theatres and 128 specialised medical units and supported by 2 486 medical specialists, Netcare’s hospitals care for an estimated 800 000 patients every year.
Research conducted at Netcare highlighted that Registered Nurses spent 39% of their day on administration and only 14% on active nursing. This comprehensive review of nursing staff activities arose from the need to address critical staff and skills shortages.
These results are published by the HR Research Initiative – a research programme of the South African Board of Personnel Practice (SABPP) - in support of the professionalisation of Human Resource Practitioners. The SABPP is the statutory quality assurance and registration body for Human Resource Management in South Africa.
This first published HRRI project provides the tools to support Human Resource Practitioners in playing a constructive role in meeting workplace challenges – in this case how to address the impact of skills shortages within organisations.
All too often the only response to skills shortages is: “more training”; while this remains valid, there is also the need to ensure effective use of existing skills.
Despite a comprehensive strategic programme aimed at attracting and retaining professional staff, staff turnover and skills shortages at Netcare continued. For the then Group HR Director, Italia Boninelli the challenge was: How could they best utilise the scarce skills that they had? Innovative solutions were required. A comprehensive review and re-allocation of the way tasks were combined into job descriptions followed.
The HRRI publication includes: an executive summary, a detailed case study, teaching notes for use by lecturers of academic human resource programmes, and a practitioner note providing guidance to HR practitioners on how they may workshop the case study with management teams within their organisation.
Although the case study is based on a medical organisation, the learning has general application within all organisations and comes at a time of critical skills shortages within many economic sectors. The publication is available from the South African Board of Personnel Practice. Netcare Hospital Group is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) and has grown from four hospitals at listing 1996 to a current total of 62 hospitals owned and managed by the Group. Equipped with 7200 beds, 319 operating theatres and 128 specialised medical units and supported by 2 486 medical specialists, Netcare’s hospitals care for an estimated 800 000 patients every year.
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