Human Resources in Healthcare CH13 Fried & Fottler
Practice Questions with Answers
1. Goal of healthcare workforce planning - Correct Answer Provide the right
number of healthcare workers with the right knowledge, skills, attitudes and
qualifications performing the right task in the right place at the right time.
2. Triple aim of healthcare - Correct Answer Lower cost, higher patient
satisfaction, improve health outcomes for population.
3. Taking a strategic and proactive approach to healthcare workforce planning can
help the organization do the following. - Correct Answer Improve care delivery
for patients, reduced cost for payers and the healthcare organization itself,
improve employee engagement, achieve efficiencies for employers and health
systems.
4. Largest single component of the healthcare workforce - Correct Answer Nurses
5. Of the two .6 trillion spent in the US for healthcare how much goes to wages? -
Correct Answer 56%
6. Insufficient numbers of health professionals lead to? - Correct Answer Staffing
shortages that results in long wait times or the inability to access needed here.
7. Healthcare workforce planning relies on? - Correct Answer Forecasting models
to estimate the future supply and demand for healthcare workers.
8. Who uses workforce models? - Correct Answer Policymakers, health
professionals, employers, and stakeholders.
9. What's our workforce models used for? - Correct Answer To understand current
trends and plan for how many healthcare workers to train or higher in the future.
10. Recent models include the ability to model the outcome of? - Correct Answer
"What if" scenarios
11. Models are based on what? - Correct Answer Data and assumptions derived
from current patterns of healthcare delivery.
12. Process of modeling current and future supply of healthcare workers. - Correct
Answer Inventory of current workforce, examines inflow and outflow of workers,
estimate the size of the future workforce.
Practice Questions with Answers
1. Goal of healthcare workforce planning - Correct Answer Provide the right
number of healthcare workers with the right knowledge, skills, attitudes and
qualifications performing the right task in the right place at the right time.
2. Triple aim of healthcare - Correct Answer Lower cost, higher patient
satisfaction, improve health outcomes for population.
3. Taking a strategic and proactive approach to healthcare workforce planning can
help the organization do the following. - Correct Answer Improve care delivery
for patients, reduced cost for payers and the healthcare organization itself,
improve employee engagement, achieve efficiencies for employers and health
systems.
4. Largest single component of the healthcare workforce - Correct Answer Nurses
5. Of the two .6 trillion spent in the US for healthcare how much goes to wages? -
Correct Answer 56%
6. Insufficient numbers of health professionals lead to? - Correct Answer Staffing
shortages that results in long wait times or the inability to access needed here.
7. Healthcare workforce planning relies on? - Correct Answer Forecasting models
to estimate the future supply and demand for healthcare workers.
8. Who uses workforce models? - Correct Answer Policymakers, health
professionals, employers, and stakeholders.
9. What's our workforce models used for? - Correct Answer To understand current
trends and plan for how many healthcare workers to train or higher in the future.
10. Recent models include the ability to model the outcome of? - Correct Answer
"What if" scenarios
11. Models are based on what? - Correct Answer Data and assumptions derived
from current patterns of healthcare delivery.
12. Process of modeling current and future supply of healthcare workers. - Correct
Answer Inventory of current workforce, examines inflow and outflow of workers,
estimate the size of the future workforce.
