Making The Workplace in Healthcare Fun

One of issues discussed in class this week was how health care organizations could make work more attractive and appealing to employees to the point where instead of dreading coming in in the morning they would dread leaving for home. And what does that have to say to job satisfaction and the overall success of the organization? Would happy doctors and nurses make happy patients? Would this attract health care professionals to seek employment at such an establishment because of the environment more than the paycheck? I suspect to some degree yes and would hope so.

For four summers between high school and college I worked at a summer camp in Yosemite National Park in central California. Why would someone from Michigan fly out to California to work at a summer camp? Well, for one thing, the environment. Yosemite is filled with some of the most breathtaking views of nature. Secondly, the monetary paycheck is not anything to boast about. However, the job satisfaction I felt made the check feel like lunch money. The difference I helped make in campers lives was worth it all and a factor for me returning year after year. Of course no organization is perfect and there are struggles but I can see how the degree of appeal makes a world of a difference