Good negotiation reaps its own rewards. Participants have better buy-in and morale because they are part of the process, rather than just being told about the resulting situations. Being able to negotiate skillfully improves with practice, just like any other skill. In the end, it is helpful to remember Thomas Fuller, a 17th century clergyman and historian, who is attributed with the saying: 'Life does not consist of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well'.
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Healthcare is increasingly impacted by chronic short staffing of nurses, which causes and is caused by increased nurse burnout and decreased retention. Nurses' unions seek to address these problems by proposing safer nurse-to-patient ratios, retention bonuses for working through the COVID-19 pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stockpiles, sabbatical leaves, measures aimed at reducing workplace violence, and maintaining or increasing wages and benefits to keep nurses at the bedside. Chronic short staffing and burnout directly affect the quality and availability of patient care-as the International Council of Nurses has pointed out, there is no healthcare without healthcare workers.
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Anne Wojtak, is a senior healthcare leader with more than 20 years of experience in the home and community care sector in Ontario. She is the co-lead for East Toronto Health Partners (Ontario Health Team), has a consulting practice focused on health system strategy and is adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
In the quest by health leaders to create the conditions necessary for the delivery of safe, high-quality care, this issue of () is pleased to offer some promising approaches and resources for establishing healthy workplaces. We are all too aware that the workforce - as the backbone of the health system - is facing severe pressures. The demand for healthcare workers is outpacing supply, which necessitates innovative solutions to retain those already in the system.
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December 2024
Voice Study Centre, University of Wales Trinity St David, Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Objective: Despite anecdotal evidence highlighting the benefits of singing teacher involvement in voice rehabilitation for effective and sustainable biopsychosocial treatment of vocal injury, singing teachers working as singing voice rehabilitation specialists (SVRS) in the United Kingdom (UK) have often been criticized for working beyond their scope of practice. With limited empirical research into the role, concern and confusion has fueled challenges to its legitimacy. The lack of regulation raises questions around safeguarding, skills, and demarcation of roles within the multidiscipline team.
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December 2024
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In Turkey's occupational health system, doctors must use the International Labor Organization's (ILO) standards to classify the chest radiographs of workers at risk of lung diseases caused by dust exposure. Yet these standards do not provide a uniformity of care within the tripartite structure of the occupational health system, which divides disease surveillance, disease diagnosis, and worker compensation into distinct silos. This division often produces ambiguity and unpredictable outcomes for occupational disease claims.
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October 2024
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