OPPORTUNITY FOR USING NON-MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS
Significance. The optimal use of "other" personnel in a medical organization is a priority aimed at eliminating the personnel shortage by transferring a number of functions of medical workers to employees without medical education. The purpose of the study: to analyze opportunity for using non-medical personnel in healthcare. Material and methods. The following methods were used: content analysis, sociological analysis, the method of expert assessment using a specially developed questionnaire. For the analysis of the obtained data, the methods of descriptive statistics were used, indicators of average values, standard deviation, and confidence intervals were calculated (the confidence level equals 95%). Results. Experts consider it possible to transfer a number of medical positions to persons without medical education, including positions that require higher education - director of a nursing home, hospice, head of a medical organization, a doctor-statistician; and positions that require secondary professional education-medical registrar, occupational therapy instructor, medical statistician. The majority of experts (92.7%) believe that head of a medical organization should have a medical education, while over half (67.7%) of them think that head should have two higher educations - in medicine and management. Experts consider 20% be the optimal share of other personnel with under 30% of expenses for remunerating administrative, managerial and support staff. The majority believe that the nomenclature of positions for administrative and managerial and support staff should be developed and suggest to supplement the Federal state form of statistical observation No. 30 with certain positions of other personnel. Conclusion. According to experts, it is possible to appoint people with non-medical education to positions of medical workers, including managers, while heads of medical organizations should have higher education in both medicine and management. Staffing standards for other personnel, methodology for calculating the need for other personnel, and changes in accounting and reporting documentation are required. Scope of application. The study results can be used by executive authorities for normative regulation and decision making on optimizing the use of persons without medical education in public health.