National healthcare issues/ stressors Selected

National healthcare issues/ stressors we selected for our study!!!

Current Healthcare Issues

According to Gerardi, Farmer, & Hoffman (2018), “the American Organization of Nurse Executives has been made to increase the proportion of nurses with a bachelor of science in nursing or higher degree to 80% by 2020.” Given this, hospitals across the nation are accepting the responsibilities of identifying and developing efficient strategies towards training and providing help for nurses to achieve a higher education in their workforce. Over the last few years, the hospital facility that I work in has practiced hiring higher educated nursing staff to attend patients as opposed to those who only obtain a high school diploma. There are flyers on many of the bulletins for those who have already been employed to be encouraged to achieve a higher degree program. For those who apply for the bachelor’s program, the facility reimburses nurses for some of their tuition costs so that they wouldn’t be discouraged to attend or drop out because of finances.

There are also programs that nurses can attend if they have already graduated with an Associates degree, which is called the fast-track diploma. This program is offered for a 15-month term and has options for both RN and BSN programs. Given that patient population is becoming more diverse, it is imperative that nurses are knowledgeable on the topics concerning their patients outside of health. For instance, to gain a standard knowledge of cultural backgrounds, religious affiliations as it relates to health options, and ethnicity differences (Marzuki, Hassan, Wichaikhum, & Nantsupawat, 2012). Nurses must possess more skills, knowledge, and competencies to deal with the challenges that arise in their field because of how the way our world changes so quickly.

Having incompetent nurses in the field can become detrimental to the healthcare facility as well as the patients who are being looked after (Marshall, E., & Broome, 2017). This is due to the poor quality of services given to patients, miscommunication, misguidance, and misunderstandings because the nurses aren’t caught up with the nursing world as it is today that a higher degree program can help them achieve. Having a demoted workforce and nurses not understanding the patient population as what it is today can prevent patients from receiving quality care, safety measures may be at stake, and untrained staff members means more likely mistakes could occur with medications, equipment operations, and so forth. NURS 6053 Pertinent Healthcare Issue & The Quadruple Aim

References

Gerardi, T., Farmer, P., & Hoffman, B. (2018). Moving closer to the 2020 BSN-prepared workforce goal. American Journal of Nursing, 118(2), 43–45.

Marshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

Marzuki, M. A., Hassan, H., Wichaikhum, O., & Nantsupawat, R. (2012). Continuing nursing education: best-practice initiative in nursing practice environment. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 60, 450-455.

Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected.

This is the feedback I received from my colleague in my discussion!!!!

Heather Taylor

RE: Discussion – Week 1

Lenick,

You are spot on about the nursing shortages in the US. The consequences of having inadequate health care affect those providing care as well as those receiving it. Increased workload directly increases stress, errors and mortality rates for patients (Peate, 2020). Additional reasons for the nursing shortage include nurse burnout; career versus family with nurses leaving the workforce, unrealistic staffing ratios; continuously changing technology; and an increase in violence (HOUSH, 2019).

The facility I formerly worked for, offered scholarship programs to nurses wishing to further their education. In exchange, the nurse signs a contract agreeing to stay with the facility for a minimum of five years. During that time, a percentage of the staff members check will be garnished to repay the scholarship. Many nurses are not aware of the fine print when they sign the contract. Not only are they locked into a job they may or may not be right for but also are subject to the same requirements as any other loan. The hospital advertises the opportunity as a scholarship but in fact it is a loan. Rather than help our nursing shortage, it has increased frustrations due to unanticipatedly aggressive repayment plans through garnishment. In short, the nurses who obtained the scholarship ended up leaving after their contracts were completed and the shortage continues.

References:

HOUSH, R. (2019). Projected Nursing Shortage “Critical” by 2030. ASBN Update, 23(2), 6.

Peate, I. (2020). Overstretched and struggling. British Journal of Nursing, 29(3), 133. https://doi org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.3.133

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