HEALTHCARE AS BUSINESS

Managing a successful business while sustaining a healthy work environment

Managing a successful business while sustaining a healthy work environment

Introduction

The task of running a successful business, along with creating a healthy working environment is a complex task that involves a great number of expertises. This challenge becomes even more complicated if the business is sensitive to the needs of clients or if the nature of the company carries substantial importance for the societal health, progress and well-being. Healthcare is a field that is not only a business but also is responsive to a growing number of health needs of individuals of any society. Known for the occupational health shared by the ILO and the World Health Organization at its first meeting in 1950 "Health profession as a branch of Health, which aims to improve the health of employees in all professions and keep them in the highest degree of well-being, physical and psychological, social, and prevent deviations health which may cause the workers working conditions, as well as protect workers from all health hazards in the workplace and the worker - and kept - in a working environment appropriate to the potential physiological and psychological features of patients” (Briles, 2009). This research paper provides an elaborated context of healthcare as a business activity and the impact of sound working conditions on the nursing profession.

For a long time the attention of the people was associated with an activity of self-sacrifice misunderstood. This is linked with primary care that was granted for free, as an expression of love and salvation of the soul in the Christian era, a payment to a lack in social life. Then many nurses started their training in hospitals, where they had to work for free on the grounds that they were still forming, and the establishment offered practical training and nutrition. So the big challenge was presented in later years, by establishing a formal training profession and therefore this should also translate into economic rewards and social recognition.

Recognizing healthcare as a business

The issues of the professional standards to ensure quality care for clients are an extremely influential aspect in the medical profession. Substantial researches have contended that every organization is defined as a system which is effective only when (1) it achieves its goals, and (2) it effectively uses human and other resources with minimum costs. It is not easy to balance the provision of services according to patient needs or expectations based on innovation, science and transfer of research in the area of drugs and procedures, combined with the available financial resources of the health care provider. Ultimately all health care is paid for, by business activity. Business provides the wages, the return on investment, the insurance, the taxes that pay directly for health care and insurance and taxes that fund government programs (Mintzberg, 2008). When the government manages to provide services at all, it can give you nothing that it does not take from you or others, or from your employer and ...