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Category: Sara Stokes
Posted February 27, 2012
by Sara Baker Stokes, Ph.D., Director, Research Services
As a researcher, I have focused on healthcare employee engagement for more than a decade. Now, I've reached the age where I'm also gaining more personal experiences about healthcare. Most of these experiences are through my children and parents being in hospitals all hours of the day and night.
Recently, Anna Vordermark commented in a blog post about her healthcare experience from a consumer perspective. I also had a recent hospital experience,...
Posted November 28, 2011
by Sara Baker Stokes, Ph.D., Director, Research Services
In Morehead's ongoing research, we have been looking at the state of engagement among different types of healthcare settings (recently, children's hospitals) and among different populations within the healthcare setting (recently, registered nurses). In December, Rod Wilkes, senior vice president of Client Solutions, will present a webinar that explores the assessment of the current state of engagement at academic medical centers...
Posted July 23, 2011
by Sara Baker Stokes, Ph.D., Director, Research Services
Recent headlines continue to beat the drum about the impending crises in nursing and nurse shortages. A recent study conducted by AMN Healthcare, a healthcare recruiter, announced that one quarter of nurses responding to their survey claimed they would be looking to leave nursing in the coming year. Another study claims that though overall satisfaction with nursing as a career is high (74%), satisfaction with the current nursing role is...
Posted May 19, 2011
by Sara Baker Stokes, Ph.D., Director, Research Services
Morehead has just concluded the administration phase of its own employee engagement survey. While mulling over my own responses to the same survey items that I research every day for our clients, I found myself considering the whole dynamic of participating in an employee opinion survey. When an organization embarks on administering an employee opinion survey, their leaders expect employees will buy in to their genuine interest in improving...
