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Nurses’ participation in the hospital boardroom has been historically limited. Some providers are trying to achieve a better balance in governance.
Candidate Balik cites business and environmental experience SHARE Hermosa Beach city council candidate Randy Balik with wife Noelle, sons Braden, and Andrew and dog Brooklyn. Photo by Barbara Balik Hermosa Beach city council candidate Randy Balik with wife Noelle, sons Braden, and Andrew and dog Brooklyn. Photo by Barbara Balik by Dan Blackburn It was time to “give back” to his community, Randy Balik said. So he became one of five candidates for an open seat on Hermosa Beach’s city council. Now, just weeks before the May 11, mail-in election, the long-time city resident and en...
By Workhuman What makes hospital employees – especially clinicians – happy at work and engaged in their jobs? The root causes of employee satisfaction, or its absence, are diverse. But, independent of each institution’s specific problems, sound organizational processes to self-evaluate the work environment and effect change can improve employee satisfaction, and therefore patient satisfaction and fiscal health. It’s not merely an article of faith that satisfied hospital employees make for a better patient experience. “There are a couple of decades of evidence that happier hospital e...