The management of professional personal potential of medical personnel

Abstract

Nowadays, the key problem in health care management is manpower issue that is manifested as acute shortage and inadequate qualification of medical personnel; working conditions providing no modern standard of living and developing type of personality uninterested in the results and unready to bear responsibility for poor quality of medical care. Purpose of the study is to develop conceptual grounds of improving manpower management in medical organizations based on the study of actual state and specifics of functioning of medical personnel in actual conditions. Material and methods: analytical, historical, statistical, sociological. The main causes of inadequate application of professional and personal capabilities of medical personnel are tough regulation and exceeding formalization of labor, inadequacy of personal funds to satisfy personal requirements in training, increased fatigue at workplace, lack of needed conditions to apply actual knowledge and skills, disinterestedness of administration in ambitious self-starters. The causes of medical personnel dissatisfaction with professional work are closely related to causes of under-exploitation of their professional and personal potential. The main factors diminishing satisfaction of medical personnel with professional labor are low wages at significant workload. The system of organizational measures to optimize application of existing manpower in medical organizations is proposed. The strategic reserve of increasing efficiency of medical organization functioning is realization of need of medical personnel in effective application and development of their professional and personal potential.