NR 554 Nurse Leader And Healthcare Policy Homework Help
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NR-554 Week 1 DQ: Problem Identification for Public and Policy Decision Makers
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NR-554 Week 1 DQ (with Peer Response): Problem Identification for Public and Policy Decision Makers
Nursing leaders and bedside staff are often … with problems that affect their workflow and ability to deliver best practices to their patients. One example of a policy that has been adopted by man...
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Running head: PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION FOR PUBLIC AND POLICY 1
Problem Identification for Public and Policy Decision Makers
Carole Bingley
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy
March 2018
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Nursing leaders and bedside staff are often confronted with problems that affect their workflow and
ability to deliver best practices to their patients. One example of a policy that has been adopted by
many healthcare organizations to reduce confusion and improve efficiency in communication is the use
of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, & Recommendation) tool to ensure clear, concise, and
effective communication between professions. Describe a situation or issue that you see within your
work environment or local community related to a healthcare issue and describe what you believe the
solution would look like.
Week 1: Problem Identification for Public and Policy Decision Makers
Today the demand for public behavioral health services is extremely high as the crisis in
mental health care continues. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Statistics, "in 2007, one in eight people, or nearly 12 million hospital emergency department
visits, were for mental health disorders, substance use or both" (2010). Increasingly, emergency
departments are struggling with the increasing number of mentally ill patients falling through the
cracks due to lack of needed mental health services and supports. Patients requiring more
intensive psychiatric care are often “boarded” in the ED for additional hours to days as they wait
for the transfer process to complete or for beds to become available. This process frequently
results in ED overcrowding, which lowers the quality of care for mental health patients and
results in higher risks of adverse outcomes for all ED patients.
Mental health services delivered through the ED require more than twice the time as the
average medical protocol offered in the same setting. Psychiatric boarding can have a significant
impact on already scarce ED resources. Boarding mental health patients result in increased
nursing and security staffing, has a significant financial impact on ED reimbursement, increases
costs associated with unnecessary diagnostic and laboratory tests required by inpatient
psychiatric treatment programs prior to accepting a patient from the ED for admission and
transfer (The Joint Commision, 2015). Additionally, psychiatric boarding prevents ED beds from
being used for new patients and delaying treatment of other ED patients.
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