What is it about?
New ways of working in public health hospitals in Nigeria, like as in any other countries of the world, becomes very imperative since the busy schedules of patients of these hospitals are making it increasingly practically impossible to keep clinic appointments, and still yet have to keep themselves healthy for them to continually function well in their enterprise. The emphasis of new ways of working in hospitals is the copious use of information technologies and social media as well as other means in which health personnel can attend to the health needs of their patients at any time of the day with they themselves deriving significant satisfaction in doing so, and part of the proposal is that health workers should not be compulsorily confined to do their works within the physical confines of the hospitals and so also they should be allowed to choose a convenient time and means of attending to the health needs of their patients while they are allowed to use the freed up time for other purposes to better their lives in exchange for their commitment and usefulness to their employers and their patients. This study aimed at finding the satisfaction that health workers are likely to develop if new ways of workings are introduced to these hospitals.
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Why is it important?
This study is important in the view that the absenteeism of patients from coming to clinics for check ups can be curtailed thus increasing better relationships between patients and their doctors, it also allows health workers to make use of their spare times for the purpose of building their enterprise, attending more conferences and trainings and being more savvy in the use of information technologies.
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I believe that this is the right time for patients to get the best of the services they can get from their doctors and other health workers, and as they say'health is wealth', it is when they are healthy that they can pursue their goals of being wealthy in life but the chaotic and congestive lifestyles in most cities of the world are making the rightful juxtaposition of these two variables impossible, it is expected that health workers can be making use of latest advances in technologies to bridge this gap and in exchange, less emphasis would be placed on their compulsory presence at their places of work unless when necessary, so in the process they can also use their spare times to attend to their other pressing needs in order to make them more relevance and satisfying in practicing their profession.
Dr Maclawrence K.O. Famuyiwa
Texila American University
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This page is a summary of: Staff Satisfaction to the Introduction of New Ways of Working in General Hospitals in Nigeria, TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, June 2016, Texila American University,
DOI: 10.21522/tijph.2013.04.02.art014.
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