Departmental Challenges
Total responses to date = 243. Answers were as follows:
What is the biggest challenge that your department faces?
(Choose only one of the following )
- Staffing: 43
responses (17.70%)
- Motivating Employees: 26
responses (10.70%)
- Keeping up with Change
- Within Service Areas: 8
responses (3.29%)
- Keeping up with Change
- Standards and Regulations: 9
responses (3.7%)
- Gathering Needed
Information from Vendors, etc.: 6
responses (2.47%)
- Training and Staff
Education: 28 responses (11.52%)
- Loaner Instruments: 12
responses (4.94%)
- Having enough Instruments: 27
responses (11.11%)
- Errors: 12
responses (4.94%)
- Internal Departmental
Relationships: 19 responses
(7.82%)
- Relationships with
Customers: 1 responses (.41)%
- Funding for needed
Equipment: 5 responses (2.06%)
- Support from Administration: 4
responses (1.65%)
- Space: 20
responses (8.23%)
- Staff Recruitment
and Retention: 11 responses
(4.53%)
- Other: 12 (5.94%)
Answers
here included:
- Certification of Staff
- Malfunctioning equipment
- Fair wages
- New OR Director
- Lack of communication
- Getting added responsibilities without added resources
- Recovering from Hurricane Katrina
- Testing
- Keeping qualified people to current wages which
causes shortages in our department in staff
- Staff needing to understand the importance of doing their best at
all times
Our
thanks to all those who responded.
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