It is wonderful that at the very beginning of the Year of the Tiger 2022, the research results on applying the WHO Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) tool in Vietnam have been accepted for publication in the journal Human Resources for Health (BMC). This is the first international paper on the application of WISN in Vietnam. The authors of the paper are faculty members from the Department of Health Management and Organization: Assoc. Prof. PhD. Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu, MSc. Phung Thanh Hung, and MSc. Bui Thi My Anh.
The study was conducted on a group of nurses across 22 clinical departments in 4 provincial general hospitals. The results show that 10 out of 22 departments were short of 1-2 nurses, with some departments experiencing a shortage of up to 5 nurses. The time spent on administrative tasks by nurses in these departments accounted for 20-40% of their total working time.
The research findings indicate that the application of WISN allows health managers to analyze workload and nursing staffing needs, thereby contributing effectively to the overall human resource planning process for hospital departments and healthcare facilities.
You can access the paper via the following link:
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-021-00668-y?fbclid=IwAR3wabwR5rs5EaFlYOltLms5XzAS219g5z95KRem1sSDh0AFP_FxLWMtNuI