The vitality of any professional organization depends on both the service it provides to members and the active participation of members within the organization. Professional organizations and their collective memberships provide a vital function in promoting professional preparation, standards of practice and ethics, research, leadership, and overall growth of the profession as a whole. Respectively, these are the acknowledged leaders in quick changeovers, handling wait lines and order-entry processes. Looking to acknowledged leaders and studying the absolute best performance in an area is known as benchmarking. Benchmarking has contributed to clinical performance for many years.
Outstanding clinicians are quite conscious of what their peers are doing regionally and nationally.
Clinicians become aware of cutting edge practices in their specialties by reading professional journals and hearing professional presentations. Recently, healthcare administrators have adopted the idea of benchmarking to identify the best practices in related and unrelated settings to use as performance targets. This is a part of the continuous quality improvement process. We as managers should not hesitate to go outside our industry for models of quality. Benchmarking can alleviate employee burnout.