Journal des soins infirmiers et des soins

Pairing Resilience and Governance: The Role of a Healthcare Planner in Africa

Abstract

Stephanie El-Khoury and Carlos Noujeim

Resilience management helps an organization to adapt to crisis. It supports business operators to deal with repetitive changes while managing risks and probabilities. This will give the organization an advantage to increase its performance. Healthcare sector mostly profited from this concept recently during COVID-19. Whereas, clinical governance is a very known framework in healthcare. It consists of improving and offering high standards of care while maintaining a supportive environment for the providers. Understanding greatly both concepts will create a solid combination that will help healthcare planners to operate easily in organizations, especially in moderate and low-income countries. For this purpose, the present paper discussed resilience management and clinical governance, and illustrates a simple strategic framework to be applied.