The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) created and opportunity for the United States (U.S) to enhance access to health care and, significantly reduced the number of uninsured people. However, the ACA blocked undocumented immigrants from purchasing health insurance in the market it created, leaving millions with limited routes to health care. The current health care market has unintentionally created a delivery system in which the treatment of individuals has often been between the ethical dilemma of proving care versus the cost of health care and the providers who have a duty to provide such care (Thomsen, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (AGNP) can influence practice with the complex issues
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Giving rise to commercialization as the leading driver of health care delivery cost in today’s market. An ethical concern for providers and consumers of health care. Moneymaking has replaced autonomous practice for the benefit of patients with paid transactions. Commercialization comes in many forms such; as pay-for-performance, privatize health care systems, individual out-of-pocket ‘expenses’, and high monthly premiums. Professionalism replaced by monetary gains has a ripple effect on all aspects of health care delivery and, can become very disadvantageous to particular facets of health care consumers. When health care becomes a commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace, it will be made available to the highest bidders. Leading to widening health inequalities associated with disparate wealth between rich and poor (Brody, …show more content…
Caring influence patients positively and, it is beneficial to all stakeholders to preserve, protect, promote, and sustain the caring practices, which is the core of professional nursing. Patients had improved self-esteem, quality of life, knowledge, coping mechanisms, decreased lengths of stay and health care costs when they perceived that caring was apparent. The fountain of nursing practice is caring which is vital in promoting favorable patient outcomes. The combination of caring with competence is essential to improving health care outcomes (Desmond et al.,
Giving rise to commercialization as the leading driver of health care delivery cost in today’s market. An ethical concern for providers and consumers of health care. Moneymaking has replaced autonomous practice for the benefit of patients with paid transactions. Commercialization comes in many forms such; as pay-for-performance, privatize health care systems, individual out-of-pocket ‘expenses’, and high monthly premiums. Professionalism replaced by monetary gains has a ripple effect on all aspects of health care delivery and, can become very disadvantageous to particular facets of health care consumers. When health care becomes a commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace, it will be made available to the highest bidders. Leading to widening health inequalities associated with disparate wealth between rich and poor (Brody, …show more content…
Caring influence patients positively and, it is beneficial to all stakeholders to preserve, protect, promote, and sustain the caring practices, which is the core of professional nursing. Patients had improved self-esteem, quality of life, knowledge, coping mechanisms, decreased lengths of stay and health care costs when they perceived that caring was apparent. The fountain of nursing practice is caring which is vital in promoting favorable patient outcomes. The combination of caring with competence is essential to improving health care outcomes (Desmond et al.,