. Farzaneh Doosty; . Mohammad R. Maleki; . Mohammad H. Yarmohammadian
Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 1-7
Abstract
The purpose of this scoping review was to survey the most recent (10 years) estimating of neededhuman resource in health‑care organization by Workload Indicators of Staffing Need ...
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The purpose of this scoping review was to survey the most recent (10 years) estimating of neededhuman resource in health‑care organization by Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN)method literature to understand themes and research avenues that may be helpful and beneficialto estimating of needed staff in health‑care organizations. Our search strategy was based onusing search engines such as Medline, Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed as well publicationssuch as Elsevier, Emerald, ProQuest, and Springer. Finally, 31 articles extract for scoping review.Scoping review findings emerge in four key points that mentioned as follow: Service delivery time,Geographical features, Workload, and Supply and Demand. Furthermore, the strengths and weaknessof WISN extracted from literature. As conclusion, the WISN method is applicable to any health‑careorganization, and of course, in smaller institutions, it can be done more quickly and efficiently.Where shortages of staff were identified using WISN, and if increasing the number of employeeswas impossible, we could use the task shifting. WISN can be used to calculate the required humanresources for future models based on some assumptions such as the results of staff training,demographic changes, and disease profiles and staff turnover.
