In: Nursing
Explore two types of change likely to occur in the healthcare
environment in the next several years?
Evaluate the four processes that are involved in environmental
analysis?
Which one is most important to the change you described
above?
What did you conclude from this evaluation?
1). The two following changes are likely to occur in the next several years in the healthcare environment:
The trend of increasing retirements of babyboomer generation and lack of competent new talent: Not only in the healthcare organizations but several industries are facing the problem of lacking skilled young employees to replace the retired employees. Retaining the experienced output provided by the senior workers by employing the same number of new staff is a major challenge that affects healthcare industry. On the other and, new diseases are emerging along with an increase in the lifetime of the individuals, which also increase the demand for healthcare services.