ESSAY: Advocating for the Nursing Role in Program Design and Implementation

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and reflect on your thinking regarding the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.
Select a healthcare program within your practice and consider the design and implementation of this program.
Reflect on advocacy efforts and the role of the nurse in relation to healthcare program design and implementation.

In a 2 paper, create an interview transcript of your responses to the following interview questions:

Tell us about a healthcare program, within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?
Who is your target population?
What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?
What is your role as an advocate for your target population for this healthcare program? Do you have input into design decisions? How else do you impact design?
What is the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation? How does this role vary between design and implementation of healthcare programs? Can you provide examples?
Who are the members of a healthcare team that you believe are most needed to implement a program? Can you explain why?

ANSWER

Implementing a Program to Reduce Hospital Acquired Infection

            Provision of quality care is an ethical and moral obligation of any healthcare facility. Quality in this case implies taking into account all the complexities surrounding provision of primary care. An achievement of this mandate however is dependent on both nurses and other nursing specialists. In any healthcare program therefore, there has to be a proper multidimensional approach in ensuring quality care is guaranteed (Morgan et al., 2018). Through an interactive/ interview process, this paper thus suggests a healthcare program and outlines the importance of a collaborative approach in provision of quality care.

Interviewer: Tell us about the healthcare program, within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?

Dr. Amante: Our hospital acquired infections program is meant to help frontline clinicians as well as other healthcare professionals reduce or totally eliminate the spread of HAI especially by improving the manner in which care is given to patients.The funds are used to advance training on the benefits of hand washing and undertaking evidence-based approaches by offering grants for research. The cost of the program goes to a tune of $ 1.5 billion. The projected outcome is a reduction in HAI by 40% in the next one year.

Interviewer: Who is your target population?

Dr. Amante: The target population is 300 men and women who work as frontline clinicians, those in intensive care units as well as those interested in research, specifically on advancing the science of preventing HAI.

Interviewer: What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?Dr. Amante: Nurses can raise their concerns regarding what can be done to reduce HAI. For example, whether hand washing practice…