Biomedical subjects

G Langill

Publications and source records attributed to G Langill.

11 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Working to promote and maintain a safe and secure environment in a hospital setting.

This article examines how one hospital developed an approach to creating a safer and more secure environment for staff and patients. A cross-functional task group promoted a review of existing practices and processes related to the issue of violence in the workplace. The task group made recommendations for improving prevention, response, and the reporting of violent incidents. Results to date indicate that this approach is working to meet the goal of a safer and more secure environment.

Child↗

PubMed1998

Learning to support your work force in changing times.

This article looks at how one health care organization, the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, has taken a proactive approach to the human resource challenges associated with ongoing changes and transitions in the work place. The overriding objective has been to retain a stable, highly skilled and motivated work force, which is essential to providing quality care.

Absenteeism↗

PubMed1997

Structuring the design and implementation of leadership and teamwork for program management.

Health care providers throughout Canada are aspiring to improve how they manage their resources, while maintaining or improving the quality of patient care through more patient-focused, team-based approaches. Many of the current program management models being implemented in the field are designed to realize these aspirations. Yet they are actually opposing them because of a lack of clarity about accountability and authority. Working relationships (teamwork) within clinical teams, and between clinical teams, physicians, support functions and the senior management committee, have been vague. This lack of clarity in role relationships has created many problems. This article demonstrates how we attempted to solve some of these problems at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.

Guidelines as Topic↗

PubMed1991

Authority: changing attitudes.

George Langill, MHA, executive director of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, spoke at the 1990 CHAC Administrators' Seminar in Toronto. Langill addressed the issue of sponsorship and passing on mission values to future lay leaders from the point of view of a lay administrator.

Authoritarianism↗

PubMed1989

Who's caring for the care givers--a nursing dilemma.

With our hospital system generally in crisis, exemplified by problems of access, rapid patient turnover and increasing acuity, one of the obvious first breaking points will be with those closest to the patient--our nurses. Nurses are experiencing increasing stress and burnout, which leads to disillusionment, turnover and attrition. The effect these problems have in enrollment in the care professions, especially nursing, is obvious now with lower enrollment and a general apathy toward the profession. Nurses view themselves as the low person on the totem pole of clinical professions, an image which must be improved if people are to choose nursing as their career.

Burnout, Professional↗

PubMed1981