NR 708 Week 1 Health Policy Framework part 1

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NR 708 Week 1: Health Policy Framework part 1 Identify and discuss a problem that you have encountered in your current role. Also, please identify how the problem can be framed into a policy issue. ... As we are heading into the first discussion question, it is important to analyze our current health policy frameworks. How can you relate this to your current role? What problems have you encountered? How can obtaining your DNP help with these problems in the current framework? Nurses’ power of influence on health policy can help promote safe work environments, help safe guard the nursing scope of practice, and protect patients by providing safe, efficient, and equitable quality of care (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, & O’Grady, 2016). The doctorate prepared nurse is an influential member of the healthcare system. In order to affect the policy making process, the DNP-prepared nurse must understand how to “successfully analyze the process and influence it with a high degree of political competence” (Mason et al., 2016, p. 67). From the current health policy frameworks, The CDC (2015) proposed the Policy Analytical Framework. This framework can be used for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing policies to improve healthcare outcome. The key steps in this framework include identifying the problem or issue, identifying an appropriate policy solution and developing a strategy for furthering adoption of a policy solution (CDC, 2015). When describing the issue, the nurse should be as specific as possible when identifying the characteristics, burden, frequency, severity and scope of the problem (CDC, 2015). The problem I have encountered in the urgent care setting is ineffective provider-to-provider communication for care transition to the emergency department. Patients visit stand-alone urgent care centers for conditions (cardiac related chest pain) that are not appropriate for the urgent care setting and sometimes their condition may worsen while they are getting treatment. These type of urgent care centers are not attached to the hospital and are usually privately owned. The privately-owned urgent care centers are not mandated to call report to the emergency department and can just transfer to the patient via ambulance to the nearest emergency department. I have witnessed providers give report to emergency medical services (EMS) and discharge the patient without calling the emergency department to give the receiving provider report. Providing accurate patient information during a transfer enables the receiving providers to immediately [Show More]

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