To Prepare:
BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 1
Post a description of the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for analysis, and explain how the healthcare issue/stressor may impact your work setting. Then, describe how your health system work setting has responded to the healthcare issue/stressor, including a description of what changes may have been implemented. Be specific and provide examples.
By Day 6 of Week 1
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days who chose a different national healthcare issue/stressor than you selected. Explain how their chosen national healthcare issue/stressor may also impact your work setting and what (if anything) is being done to address the national healthcare issue/stressor.
I currently work as regional manager for a large company that oversees doctors’ offices. One of the main issues that affect us greatly is the rising cost of medication and patient compliance. There are many reasons healthcare cost rise. One reason is “The way the system is structured now, it is a cure-driven system, not a prevention-driven system,” (Morabito 2022) This statement means that we focus on fixing a problem rather than preventing the problem.
My company has created a new position within the company to monitor patients and to ensure the follow up in office for preventative procedures. The position is care managers the care managers call patients routinely monitoring for any disease exacerbation, schedule them for follow up appointments after ER, or hospital stays, and routine visits. It is said that the benefits of preventive health care are narrowly defined in terms of reductions in future morbidity and mortality.
Thus it is normally assumed that it is the final health gains alone which bear utility (Salkeld). If patients are diligent about frequenting their physician offices to get routine test, labs and procedures as well as maintaining a balanced diet many health disparities will ne prevented. Getting preventive care reduces the risk for diseases, disabilities, and death — yet millions of people in the United States don’t get recommended preventive health care services (Borsky).
Borksy, A., et al. (2018). Few Americans Receive All High-Priority, Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services. Health Affairs, 37(6).
Charlotte Morabito February 28, 2022 “Why health-care costs are rising in the U.S. more than anywhere else” retrieved on November 28, 2022 from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/why-health-care-costs-are-rising-in-the-us-more-than-anywhere-else-.htmlLinks to an external site.
Salkeld G. (1998). What are the benefits of preventive health care?. Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy, 6(2), 106–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02678116
One of the main healthcare issues right now is nursing shortage. In my current workplace we are often understaffed. I work in a COVID unit and one reason nurses do not stay is staff burnout. Thus, our hospital is hiring travel nurses to fill up these positions and also partnering up with local universities and colleges that offers nursing programs to encourage new graduates to apply at the hospital in exchange of loan reimbursement. The same is offered with current staff that wants to pursue further education in exchange for a work contract.
First and foremost, hospitals and other health care facilities must immediately invest in retaining our current nursing workforce. Burnout associated with COVID-19 working conditions and post-traumatic stress disorder is leading to an exodus of nurses. Some nurses are choosing to retire; others are abandoning hometown hospitals for more lucrative traveler positions. Som
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