Option 2 Instructions Care coordination and patient advocacy are essential complementary components of modern healthcare delivery, with nurses playing a cardinal role in ensuring optimal patient outcomes and efficient use of healthcare resources. To address the role of nursing in care coordination, it’s important to note that coordination is a complex process that involves organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all stakeholders concerned with a patient's care to achieve safer and more effective care. Nurses are often at the forefront of this process, serving as the primary point of contact for patients, families, and other healthcare providers (American Nurses Association, 2012). Nurses begin the care coordination …show more content…
They educate patients about their health conditions, treatment options, and potential outcomes, ensuring access to accurate and understandable information. This empowers patients to make informed decisions about their care. Nurses also advocate for culturally sensitive care by considering patients' backgrounds, beliefs, and preferences when developing and implementing care plans, ensuring respectful and appropriate care aligned with patients' values. In navigating complex healthcare systems, nurses assist patients and families in understanding their options, accessing necessary resources, and overcoming barriers to care. When faced with ethical dilemmas, nurses work to resolve issues in ways that prioritize patient autonomy, dignity, and well-being, further exemplifying their crucial role in patient advocacy (R. G. Hanks, 2008). Prevention of Unnecessary Health Visits and Costs Nurses play a crucial role in chronic disease management, medication education, and care coordination, all of which contribute to preventing unnecessary healthcare visits and reducing costs. For patients with chronic conditions, nurses provide ongoing education and support, teaching self-management skills, monitoring symptoms, and adjusting treatment plans as needed. Effective management can significantly reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations. In medication reconciliation and education, nurses ensure patients understand their medications, potential side effects, and proper administration, helping to prevent errors and adverse events. Additionally, through effective care coordination, nurses help prevent duplication of services and unnecessary tests or procedures, minimizing patient inconvenience and potential risks associated with redundant interventions. These combined efforts not only reduce healthcare costs but also improve patient outcomes and quality of care (E. H. Wagner et al.,
where the patient's nurse needs to advocate for their patient. There are numerous reasons why a nurse would advocate for their patient ranging from getting the doctor to change the patient’s orders, helping the patient’s treatment team understand what it is the patient is requiring for the day, to expressing the patient’s last wishes before death. In every situation, the nurse should do what is in the patient’s best interest. Tomajan (2012), “Advocacy skills are the ability to successfully support a cause
Patient advocacy is both essential and crucial for nurses to promote and ensure in the nursing field. I have learned in our class that patient advocacy plays a major role in building a trusting therapeutic relationship. Therefore, nurses must advocate on behalf of their patients and provide them with the support they deserve. Patient advocacy in nursing is being actively supportive of a patient in relation to his / her rights and choices, protecting
role of standard care of patients in a practical setting. The statement describes the purpose on how human rights and values should be upheld. The values that are outlined in this statement are individual worth, dignity and human rights. This is important because it provides a framework of how to provide the best care to the patient. The nurse’s role is to promote and protect human rights in a practical setting, by being a patient advocate that acts on the behalf of the patient in meeting their needs
Compassion encompasses treating your patients with high quality evidence based care, and demonstrating empathy towards each patient (H. Anshutz, personal communication, April 13, 2018). Altruism is when a healthcare professional puts the needs of their patients first (H. Anshutz, personal communication, April 13, 2018). Additional values for a physical therapist include advocacy, cultural competence, and safety (Guenther, McGinnis, Romen, & Patel, 2014). Advocacy is the protection of another’s rights
Importance of Teamwork and Collaboration in Future Nursing Massachusetts (MA) Department of Higher Education, in coordination with nurses from Massachusetts nursing practice and education settings, developed the framework for professional nursing called the Nurse of the Future (NOF) Nursing Core Competencies (NCC) (Chamberlain college of nursing, 2015). This model includes the following competencies; Patient-centered care, Professionalism, Informatics and technology, Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Emergency Nurses Association The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) strives for excellence in the practice of emergency nursing, providing advocacy for its patients, support for nursing professionals, and training to injury prevention volunteers (ENA, 2017; ICN, 2010). This organization provides global resources aimed at elevating safe nursing practice and patient care in the emergency setting (ENA, 2017). Initially established to promote teaching and networking, ENA “has evolved into an authority, advocate
providing safe, patient centered health care to the community. For example, The International Council of Nurses states that “nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities sick or well, and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health; prevention of illness; and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health
how to interact with my patients and coworkers. Before the Zoom call, I did a few assignments to prepare myself for the event. The assignment is what we talked about during the Zoom call. The call was facilitated by two different proctors. The first person gave a brief overview of how the call was going to go. Then we got put into a “breakout
Inclusion for transgender patients across all sectors of healthcare is critical to nursing because “[r]especting and caring for patients is at the very core of what the nursing profession stands for” (Cicero & Black, 2016, p. 28). The RNAO (2007) is “committed to speaking out against discrimination and social exclusion based on sexual orientation and gender identity” (p. 3). By having “an opportunity to be leaders in advocating for gender diversity” (p. 116), nurses are not only in a pivotal position
autonomy? Why does it matter? Why is important in your career? These are all the questions one may have while sitting in your last class of the day listening to your nursing professors emphasize the importance of “Autonomy” as a nurse. Why should we care though; why does autonomy matter to us as future nurses? To answer these questions, one must first understand exactly what autonomy means. To the general public autonomy is defined as, “freedom from external control or influence; independence” (Stammers
sciences into my area of practice as an educator. I learned to improve my advocacy and mentoring skills providing my students a non-judgmental learning environment. The clinical rotations often bring forth ethical dilemmas and through debriefing the students and this writer are able to advocate for the patient. Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and System Thinking are critical for improving quality patient outcome. The DNP program prepares the graduate to evaluate practice
Nurses at all levels implement leadership skills to contribute to patient safety and quality of care but not all nurses begin their career with the thoughts of becoming a leader. Like many nurses, I never thought to be in a leadership position but I want to have an impact on the future of the health care system and I want to be part of the transformation that is driven by the needs of the health care consumers. My goal is to become the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for a leading healthcare organization
Essential IV: Information Systems/Technology and patient care technology for the improvement and transformation of health care is an important part of the DNP. Technology has transformed every aspect of human life in positive ways. Technology brought efficiency and improved healthcare deliverance system. Healthcare technologies enabled practitioners to better understand disease process and how to implement best treatment plan. DNP programs across the country embrace information systems and technology
advocating empowerment to patients: Patient advocacy in the international scenario in nursing reflects extensive and different perspectives on ethical and legal contexts. Researcher had found that the denial of the nurse’s role as patient advocate can be a major source of moral suffering (O’Connor et al. 2005). Nurses role in advocacy had been define as the voice of patients. According to Nedd (2006), nurses had embraced the role of advocating the patients, as the patients are generally vulnerable
My personal goal is to be a successful pediatric nurse who communicates and connect with patients on the personal level. I think I have not reached this goal because I still need to work on my communication skills. Through this course experience, I am a step closer to my goal. I discovered that it is easier to communicate and connect with people who has similar background and experience. Since most clients were students, I found it easy to find common topics to talk about and related to them easily