Description

In today’s evolving and increasing cost of health care delivery, effective employee recruitment, retention and engagement strategies are imperative in optimizing laboratory and organization resources. This session will discuss strategies and ideas for recruiting top talents, engaging employees for retention and multidisciplinary team-based relationship building. Speakers will discuss and share successful strategies, experience and outcomes in talent recruitment and engagement, as well as multidisciplinary collaborative relationship-based approach to optimize laboratory operations.


Learning Objectives:

• Discuss current laboratory staffing needs and best hiring practices to fill vacancies with potentially high-achievers
• Discuss ideas for keeping top talents engaged in the laboratory
• Discuss strategies on building multidisciplinary team-based engagement models to reduce silos and promote effective and efficient shared ownership of transfusion practices for optimum patient care while improving regulatory compliance.

Speaker(s):

• Dr. Steven M. Armstrong, DHA, MT(AMT), SBB(ASCP), FACHE, VCU Health System
• Karafa S. Badjie, MS, MLS (ASCP)SBB, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Transfusion Medicine, Mayo Clinic
• Mr. Ricardo D. Sumugod, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, Northwestern Medicine - Northwestern Memorial Hospital