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  • Healthcare Management
  • Health Services Research
  • Organizational Behavior

Background:

  • Healthcare leaders face significant challenges including workforce shortages, rising costs, and decreased reimbursement.
  • Effective leader performance is essential for organizational competitiveness, profitability, and productivity, requiring a supportive work environment and manageable workload.
  • Poorly designed work environments can increase leader workload, negatively impacting performance, job satisfaction, and resilience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the factors contributing to excessive workload among healthcare leaders in a respiratory therapy (RT) department.
  • To implement strategies aimed at decreasing the perceived workload of RT leaders.
  • To identify transferable strategies for optimizing leader workload in similar healthcare settings.

Main Methods:

  • A comprehensive workload assessment was conducted within the RT department of an academic medical institution.
  • Inefficiencies and opportunities for collaboration with ancillary departments were identified.
  • Workload was redistributed to align with appropriate clinical teams and optimize leader responsibilities.

Main Results:

  • The workload assessment pinpointed specific inefficiencies contributing to an unreasonable leader workload.
  • Strategic redistribution of workload led to better alignment with clinical teams and top-of-scope practice.
  • RT department leaders reported improved job satisfaction following the implemented workload management strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Addressing leader workload is crucial for maintaining effective healthcare leadership and organizational performance.
  • Workload redistribution and interdepartmental collaboration are effective strategies for mitigating excessive leader workload.
  • The strategies implemented in this quality initiative can be adapted by other healthcare institutions to improve leader satisfaction and operational efficiency.