Introduction
Long ago, nurses are known to wear white uniforms and stiff caps. Patients stays in the hospital for so many days to recover from surgery. Nurses only received a basic nursing education, and task based oriented. Today nursing has changed from wearing white uniform and cap to scrubs and non-cap wearing. They get good education at colleges and some universities, focusing on coordination of care, critical thinking, and clinical skills. As a result of healthcare reform, health care system focus is shifting toward high quality care, improve patient outcome, and medical cost reduction. The United States government is hoping to achieve these by creating accountable care organizations, offering grant to help with creation of innovative …show more content…
She is aware of health reform and what it demands of nurses. She is a member of American Nurses Association, and always read their articles and news letters about the transformation of healthcare in the United States. She said as the healthcare system is changing rapidly that she is planning to go back to school next year for her Master, that she want to be well prepared to meet the challenges. That nurses have a key role to play in health transformation, and this is the opportunity for nurses to be the change they want to see in the American healthcare industry. She continue that as healthcare is becoming more complex, nurses who are leaders are …show more content…
She had impressions that are consistent with what I researched about health reform. She stated that as American health care system is moving toward having health care that is more focus on prevention of disease, and greater number of people being insured, there will be more need for NPs who will provide basic care services. She agreed on the point that health reform has provided many opportunities for new care delivery models which help in reducing health care cost and improve patient outcome such as accountable care organizations, which can meet the aim of health care reform by responding to change in reimbursement and focus on improving quality patient care; Patient-centered medical homes in consistent with health care reform, focus on a coordinated team work, thereby improve care and reducing cost (Jeffers & Astroth, 2013); and Nurse managed health clinics which focus on providing quality care to underserved
Long ago, nurses are known to wear white uniforms and stiff caps. Patients stays in the hospital for so many days to recover from surgery. Nurses only received a basic nursing education, and task based oriented. Today nursing has changed from wearing white uniform and cap to scrubs and non-cap wearing. They get good education at colleges and some universities, focusing on coordination of care, critical thinking, and clinical skills. As a result of healthcare reform, health care system focus is shifting toward high quality care, improve patient outcome, and medical cost reduction. The United States government is hoping to achieve these by creating accountable care organizations, offering grant to help with creation of innovative …show more content…
She is aware of health reform and what it demands of nurses. She is a member of American Nurses Association, and always read their articles and news letters about the transformation of healthcare in the United States. She said as the healthcare system is changing rapidly that she is planning to go back to school next year for her Master, that she want to be well prepared to meet the challenges. That nurses have a key role to play in health transformation, and this is the opportunity for nurses to be the change they want to see in the American healthcare industry. She continue that as healthcare is becoming more complex, nurses who are leaders are …show more content…
She had impressions that are consistent with what I researched about health reform. She stated that as American health care system is moving toward having health care that is more focus on prevention of disease, and greater number of people being insured, there will be more need for NPs who will provide basic care services. She agreed on the point that health reform has provided many opportunities for new care delivery models which help in reducing health care cost and improve patient outcome such as accountable care organizations, which can meet the aim of health care reform by responding to change in reimbursement and focus on improving quality patient care; Patient-centered medical homes in consistent with health care reform, focus on a coordinated team work, thereby improve care and reducing cost (Jeffers & Astroth, 2013); and Nurse managed health clinics which focus on providing quality care to underserved