title: New staff and a team approach boost morale.
abstract: Your staff's work environment can have a significant impact on how they view their jobs and how they deal with patients. Here are some strategies for improving this all-important area of ED management: When possible, increase the number of physicians in your staff while keeping the total number of hours worked constant. Invite nurses to social gatherings to meet new physicians, to help engender a sense of teamwork. Showing flexibility when nursing staff requests personal time off will be rewarded by an enthusiastic response when you need additional coverage.
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009013:Morale; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D014481:United States