NURS 6053 Review of Current Healthcare Issues — covid 19 

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NURS 6053 Review of Current Healthcare Issues — covid 19

The national healthcare issue selected for analysis is the nursing shortage. The nursing shortage is an ongoing problem that healthcare systems deal with daily, especially in this COVID-19 era. The nursing shortage is a significant issue that is highly prevalent around the country; one experienced in various and individual workplaces. According to Haddad and Toney-Butler (2020), the nursing shortage causes numerous issues of concern; shortages are due to a lack of potential educators, high turnover, and inequitable workforce distribution.

The nursing shortage is an ongoing and widespread problem with no definitive solution found yet. Some contributory factors are the growing baby boomer populations with an increased need for health services and the aging of baby boomer nurses with the same population retiring. Significant factors contributing to the nursing shortage are the fast nursing turnover rates, management issues, job-related stress, job dissatisfaction, and the failure to nurture new nurses. Marshall and Broome (2017) contend that looming faculty shortages are among the nursing workforce’s biggest threats. Nursing shortage negatively impacts patient care and needs to be addressed to promote positive patient outcomes because nursing shortages lead to errors, higher morbidity, and mortality rates. Hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios experience burnout, dissatisfaction Haddad and Toney-Butler, 2020).

The nursing shortage is one of the most significant stressors experienced in place of employment currently. A majority of the nursing staff are dissatisfied with the new management and the leadership style of their way or the highway. This attitude/ management style contributes to the nursing shortage and has resulted in many nursing staff always calling off from work repeatedly at current employment; many have transferred out or outrightly resigned. Nurses are floated to different units with no inherent experience.

The COVID-19 has also substantially contributed to this already problematic issue with nurses experiencing burnout. Job dissatisfaction among nurses contributes to costly labor disputes, high turnover, and risk to patients; thus, the administration has now come up with plans/policies to reverse the current trend. New nurses are being hired and offered competitive salaries for retention. Internal initiatives have been provided, such as referral bonuses, retention, and annual bonuses, a nursing/administration committee established as a bridge between nurses and the administration. Also, flexible schedules have been offered; nurses can now choose to work 12 or 8 hours, which was a significant contention point. In this manner, the issue of the nursing shortage was addressed at the current place of employment.

Higher salaries alone will not be enough to attract and retain nurses or mitigate nursing shortages. Nurses desire to be part of the decision-making process; nurses desire a stress-free suitable working environment. Improving nurses’ work environment may lead to lower job dissatisfaction, intention to leave, and burnout. Focusing on these nurse outcomes can be used as a strategy to retain nurses in the healthcare system. Addressing the challenges of poor work environments requires coordinated action from policymakers and health managers (Nantsupawat et al., 2017).

References

Haddad, L. M., Annamaraju, P., & Toney-Butler, T. J. (2020). Nursing shortage. In StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing.

Marshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

Nantsupawat, A., Kunaviktikul, W., Nantsupawat, R., Wichaikhum, O. A., Thienthong, H., & Poghosyan, L. (2017). Effects of nurse work environment on job dissatisfaction, burnout, intention to leave. International nursing review, 64(1), 91–98.

 

Discussion – Week 1 -COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion
A national healthcare issue that immediately comes to mind is the ongoing battle against COVID-19. As states across the country (and countries across the world) entered into various versions of lockdown and stay-at-home orders, medical facilities were also impacted by more than simply treated patients. The entire hospital healthcare plan had to be reevaluated, reassessed, and many aspects of daily operations were impacted. Analyzing who was most at risk, the populations such as the elderly and those with compounding comorbidities was first in-line in assessing how the hospital would interact with and protect these individuals (Long, Vo, & Vuong, 2020). COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion. At the same time, another, perhaps more immediate problem were hospitals being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of patients, the need (and lack of) adequate personal protective equipment, and equipment and staffing shortages (Long, Vo, & Vuong 2020).

For the hospital I work for in particular, I am an Emergency Room Nurse, and as COVID-19 cases began to arrive in our area, there was an overwhelming rush of individuals to our hospital. It didn’t take long for the hospital to realize that we had a major nursing shortage in the ER. While there were other nurses on furlough or shortened hours in other departments, the ER was in a constant state of need. As the volume of patients flooded the emergency room doors, it did not take long to realize the shortage of nurses. Before COVID-19 the hospital system I work for joined a national movement toward seeking higher educated nurses- requiring all nursing staff to obtain their BSN (if they only had their RN) within five years or be terminated (regardless of years of service). Many of those with more than 20 years experience retired, others shifted career fields, or some simply went to other networks that did not have the same requirements. The push for a higher educated staff is not new as is stated in Gerardi, Farmer, and Hoffman (2018); however, this push for higher standards also came at a price in losing experienced and knowledgeable staff that our department, and those across the health care system have acutely felt during this pandemic. COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

The department I work for has tried to manage patient care through not allowing any visitors, if it is a pediatric patient (only one parent at a time), COVID-19 positive patients are placed in isolation rooms with negative pressure, we are given one set of PPE to last us the entire time however, and that has caused a significant amount of controversy as to why we are not able to have adequate equipment. Our ER has hired traveling nurse practitioners (increase need for provider services) nurses, new graduates, and is offering many paid overtime shifts to current staff (Auebach, Staiger, & Buerhaus 2018). We are screened every day about arrival and must document all of our interactions with COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 will not be leaving anytime soon however; and the hospital and health care system as a whole will need to continue to adapt as we work through the months to come. COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

References

Auerbach, D. I., D. O., & Buerhaus, P. I. (2018). Growing ranks of advanced practice clinicians-

Implications for the physician workforce.New England Journal of Medicine, 378(25),

2358-2360.doi:10.1056/NEJMp181869

Gerardi, T., Farmer, P., & Hoffman, B. (2018). Moving closer to the 2020 BSN workforce goal.American Journal of Nursing, 118(2), 43-45. doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000530244.15217.aa

 

Thanh-Long, G., Dinh-Tri Vo., & Quan-Hoang Vuong, (2020). COVID-19: A relook at

Healthcare system and aged populations. Sustainability, 12 (10), 4200.

doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.gardner-webb,edu/10.3390/su12104200

 

Response

Great insights, True to your statements, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the volume of patients flooding not only the ER but the great number of hospitals in the health care system,  it did not take long to realize the on-going issue of shortage of nurses.

The Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2013 (H.R. 1821) has been introduced by the ANA to Congress last May 8, 2013 which empowers registered nurses (RNs) to drive staffing and scheduling decisions in hospitals and, consequently, protect patients and improve the quality of care.

Staffing has a direct impact on patient safety. Research has shown that inadequate nurse-patient ratios are linked to higher rates of patient falls, injuries, infections, medications, and even death. Determining the appropriate number and mix of nursing staff is critical to the delivery of quality patient care and positive outcomes.

In addition, as what you have stated,  the lack of healthcare providers directly impacts the care able to be given and the quality of life of many patients. The addition of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to the workforce is certainly a viable partial solution.

Likewise, poor management could result to rapid turn-over of staff and contributory to the rapid turnover of staff are pay and benefits, workload and poor relationship with other staff due to intergenerational gap.

The push for a higher educated staff is not new, however, everyone it is a common fact that understaffing is not caused by non-enrollment of nursing students, rather, there is also an existing problem of lack of faculty to teach in the nursing schools because of low wages as compared to the nurses working in clinical practice.

The value hospitals place on their people will have a direct correlation to their commitment, confidence and engagement. Therefore, leaders and managers must enhance the organizational culture and develop orientation programs, provide availability of resources, promote camaraderie empowerment and autonomy among the staff and reinforce these values that are critical to encourage staff’s retention. COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

True to your statements, the organizational management and nursing leaders need to create ways and means in promoting adequate staffing and scheduling, promoting staff accountability and collaboration among the team, uplift the organizational culture, and enhance autonomy and empowerment among frontline staff to ensure safe quality care of patients. Great post!

 

Response

Great post Marie, I agree I think nobody was prepared for this pandemic nor do I think we are prepared for a second wave either any time soon. I remember thinking it this pandemic will not come to US and if it does we have the resources and supplies to be able to defeat it but I was wrong. The stress of nursing shortage was so bad that I remember when I was working five or six days a week in the ICU. We all know the stress of ICU without a pandemic. The rapid acceleration of transmission, and the lack of preparedness to prevent and treat this virus, the negative impacts of COVID-19 are rippling through every facet of society (Brown & Horesh, 2020). Hospitals did try to accommodate all the patients but it was too much. We did not have enough negative pressure rooms nor did we have enough PPEs, Everything they used to teach us about the spread of infection and PPEs did not apply. Staff would re-use PPEs and N95s because of the shortage. A critical shortage of all of gloves, face masks, air-purifying respirators, goggles, face shields, respirators, and gowns is projected to develop or has already developed in areas of high demand (Desai & Livingston, 2020). COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

References

Brown, A., & Horesh, D., (2020). Traumatic stress in the age of COVID-19: A call to close

critical gaps and adapt to new realities. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research,

Practice, and Policy, 12(4), 331–335. COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/tra0000592

Desai A., & Livingston, E., (2020). Sourcing Personal Protective Equipment During the

COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA. 2020; 323(19):1912–1914. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5317

Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption?

These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.

In this Discussion, you examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and select one current national healthcare issue/stressor to focus on.
  • Reflect on the current national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and think about how this issue/stressor may be addressed in your work setting.

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.

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption?

These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.

In this Discussion, you examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and select one current national healthcare issue/stressor to focus on.
  • Reflect on the current national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and think about how this issue/stressor may be addressed in your work setting.

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.

Response

Great job on your discussion post! I appreciate you highlighting the importance of the national healthcare issue on the nursing shortage. One aspect of the nursing shortage that can be overlooked, is the effects of a recession on the demand for nursing supply (Johnson et al., 2016). Variations in patient loads are difficult to predict, and hospitals are not paid for empty beds (Johnson et al., 2016). When patient loads are low, hospitals bear the costs for excess staffing (Johnson et al., 2016).

To minimize financial risk, some hospitals employ temporary nurses to substitute regularly employed RN positions (Johnson et al., 2016). It is my opinion that this factor it is not applicable to current events of the critical nursing shortage, in relation to the global pandemic COVID-19. However, as this factor is dependent upon economic status, I do believe it is something to consider, with the future uncertainty of our national economic state.

In further consideration of the nursing shortage, nurses comprise one of the largest sections of the health profession, and are a critical part of healthcare (Haddad et al., 2020). It is anticipated in 2022 that more registered nurse positions will be available than any other profession in the United States, with a projected 11 million additional nurses needed to avoid further shortage (Haddad et al., 2020). There are numerous issues of concern related to causes of the nursing shortage (Haddad et al., 2020).

Some reasons include, the aging population and aging work force, nurse burnout, violence in the healthcare setting, and staffing ratios (Haddad et al., 2020). However, this is not only a national issue. The nursing shortage is becoming an international problem, as there remains a lack of skilled nurses in Europe and Asia, as well as North America, which is ultimately a main factor in determining the world health policy (Marć et al., 2019). Some recommendations to recruit and retain nurses include, implementing mechanisms regulating salary, improving working and employment conditions, and incorporating technological and mobile innovations into the provision of lifelong learning (Marć et al., 2019).

Where I work is, the issue of nursing shortage is a prevalent issue. I appreciate the recommendations you made to help remedy this serious situation. I agree that improving the job environment as well as including nurses in the decision-making process are great strategies to implement. Have you experienced any difficulties with the nursing shortage issue at your work place?

References:

Haddad, L. M., Annamaraju, P., & Toney-Butler, T. J. (2020). Nursing shortage. StatPearls

[Internet]. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493175/

Johnson, W. G., Butler, R., Harootunian, G., Wilson, B., & Linan, M. (2016). Registered nurses:

The curious case of a persistent shortage. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 48(4), 387-

396. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12218

Marć, M., Bartosiewicz, A., Burzyńska, J., Chmiel, Z., & Januszewicz, P. (2019). A nursing

shortage — A prospect of global and local policies. International Nursing Review, 66(1),

9–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12473

Response 2

Great post discussing nursing shortage issues throughout our country. I also discussed this as my national stressor. I feel that a lot of facilities and health-care organizations are suffering due to a lack of staffing. Lack of staffing leads to deficits in patient care. You highlighted Covid-19 and nurse burnout. I feel this is something that is coming to light and showing health-care organizations just how hard nurses work and how much more they have poured into their work throughout this pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated the levels of nurse burnout experienced throughout our country.

Nantsupawat et. al (2016) conducted a study related to nurses experiencing job dissatisfaction, burnout and intention to leave. In this study it was found that nurses who work in better environments experienced less dissatisfaction. You also cited this article and how to address this issue. I have to agree with the authors in saying policy makers and managers need to take action. The nursing shortage and experience of burnout are not new topics in the health-care world. Many articles have been posted throughout the years regarding the nursing shortage and providing ideas to address the issues. While researching, I discovered a fact sheet from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Rosseter (2017) states that enrollment into nursing programs is not meeting the expectations of the demand for RN and APRN prepared nurses. We must start by encouraging enrollment into nursing programs. Just like the national campaign to encourage girls to become interested in STEM, I feel there should be a national campaign to interest children and teens in health care and nursing.

References

Nantsupawat, A., Kunaviktikul, W., Nantsupawat, R., Wichaikhum, O., Thienthong, H., & Poghosyan, L. (2016, November 24). Effects of nurse work environment on job dissatisfaction, burnout, intention to leave. Retrieved December 05, 2020, from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/inr.12342

Rosseter, R. (2017, May). Fact Sheet: Nursing Shortage. Retrieved December 04, 2020, from https://www.ic4n.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nursing-Shortage-Factsheet-2017.pdf

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NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues Discussion – Week 1

Main Post-

    In healthcare there are many healthcare issues and/or stressors that impact nearly everyone in some manner.  As

healthcare professionals, we deal with the impact of various healthcare issues and stressors everyday.  However, as

healthcare professionals, we are in a unique position to help identify healthcare issues and stressors and develop response strategies to these. NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issue.

It can be seen that there is no shortage of healthcare issues and a need for change.  One healthcare issue of great

discussion currently that is impacting healthcare work settings is the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted how we as a nation how we both receive and provide care.  The pandemic has greatly impacted how my organization provides care to those in our community, leading to the evaluation and change of many of our previous policies and processes.

I work in a high-acuity CVICU-MSICU and as a unit to help prepare for the influx of patients related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we split our CVICU and MSICU to help prevent cross-contamination of non-COVID patients.  This change has caused increased stress, as we were moved to our old ICU unit which is extremely dated, lacks storage, room space and often necessary supplies and equipment to provide patient care.  According to Vahedian-Azimi, et al., (2017) stress has anegative impact on both nurses and patient outcomes; with a grater impact to those working in critical care areas.NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

Another process change implemented in preparation was the deployment of nursing staff from areas affected by

restrictions implemented, to work in other areas such as the ICU to help combat increased patient volume and patient

shortages.  This has lead to added stress, due to taking non-ICU trained nurses and putting them in an unfamiliar

environment that they often lack the necessary skill-set to provide care to the critical care population.  To help combat this we have switched focus to a team or “pod nursing”. While staffing needs is a moving target, adopting team-based care and task shifting based on the principal of practicing at the top of license and education to help with the variance in skill-matrix to meet the needs of our patients (Pittman & Scully-Russ, 2016).

While the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the process changes associated with this is unknown, I feel that as a nation we are better prepared if something such as this occurs again.  I am also hopeful for our “new normal” and that there have been positive changes that have occurred, that we will continue to utilize on a daily basis even after the pandemic is over.

References

Pittman, P., & Scully-Russ, E. (2016). Workforce planning and development in times of delivery system transformation. Human Resources for Health, 14(56), 1–15. doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0154-3. Retrieved from https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12960-016-0154-3

Vahedian-Azimi, A., Hajiesmaeili, M., Kangasniemi, M., Fornes-Vives, J., Hunsucker, R. L., Rahimibashar, F., … Miller, A. C. (2017). Effects of Stress on Critical Care Nurses: A National Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 34(4), 311–322. doi: 10.1177/0885066617696853

Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption?

These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.

In this Discussion, you examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and select one current national healthcare issue/stressor to focus on.
  • Reflect on the current national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and think about how this issue/stressor may be addressed in your work setting.

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.

Discussion Week One

Laureate education (2015) states, that one thing that individuals and leaders can do to be prepared for healthcare challenges of the future is to develop cultural competency, gain skills to view multiple perspectives, and develop greater understanding the survival side of any healthcare organization.  I can’t think of better wisdom while in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.  This healthcare crisis has, for better or worse, brought out a side of healthcare that no one could have ever imagined. Everything from massive amounts of casualties all over the world to shortages on equipment, that just months ago were in abundant excess. Healthcare workers around the globe are learning new and creative ways to evaluate and treat patients.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020), the death toll in the United States as of this week is 88,243 people (Table 2).

In my work setting the dealing of this virus has been like receiving a slow-motion form of whip lash for the last three months.  The initial shock of the virus instilled fear and out of fear came administrative decisions of great impact.  With resources immediately being used and unavailable for reorder, special equipment had to be purchased to protect the staff.  After shelter in place orders went out, people stopped coming into the hospitals and therefore the problems began.  With outpatient day surgery being canceled, limited census on hospital floors, and spending what’s left of the budget on PPE stockpiles, money ran out quickly.  Last week at my organization laid off 22 employees permanently and another 57 furloughed for a month. 

The American Hospital Association (2020), stated hospitals and health systems all over are facing catastrophic financial challenges in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (para 3).  The impact of the virus has had a full circle effect; impacting every person sick and every person caring for the sick in different horrible ways.  My organization guaranteed our pay from May 1st, 2020 to June 8th, 2020.  After June 8th, the furloughs will begin.  Another wonderful thing my organization did was protect us.  Not one staff member from my hospital got the virus and I believe it is because they went over and above to protect the staff.  I know the layoffs and furloughs are necessary for survival but seeing coworkers and friends being sent home is painful; opening my mind to the survival aspect of healthcare is necessary for my future in it. NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

References

American Hospital Association. (2020). Hospital and health systems face unprecedented

financial pressures due to COVID-19. Retrieved June 2, 2020 from

https://www.aha.org/guidesreports/2020-05-05-hospitals-and-health-systems-face-unprecedented-financial-pressures-due

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). Daily updates of totals by week and state.

Retrieved June 2, 2020 from, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Leading in Healthcare Organizations of the Future

[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

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.NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

It is unfortunate how much impact the COVID-19 crisis has had on every single person in this country and across the world.  it has been very scary for health care providers especially nurse to provide direct care to patients.  with limited PPEs and personnel, nurses risk their lives each day when they step out to care for their patients.  Despite all these dedications, health care workers are laid off as a result of low patient Census.  I believe that there must be a system where jobs are protected for health care workers in any crisis.  the federal government needs to work with each state to ensure job protection for our health care workers.  Another important issue to address is that, there must be federal. state and local regulations that will mandate hospitals and other health care institutions to have surplus PPEs in stock to be used in times of crisis-at least 3 months supply of PPEs.  The federal and state government need to make provision of these PPEs to the various institutions.  Job security and availability of PPEs for health care workers is important especially during this time of uncertainties.

thank you for your post

Reference

Marshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in Nursing: From Expert Clinician to Influential Leader (2nd ed). New York, NY: Springer

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True to your statement, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone, especially the healthcare workers. The healthcare settings are faced with increased exposure, stress and patient load. In addition to their human toll, epidemics and pandemics can have enormous social and economic consequences in a closely interconnected and interdependent world.

In a novel virus outbreak such as COVID-19, there is no existing antiviral drugs nor vaccine available. Police departments, local utility companies and mass transit authorities experience significant personnel shortages that result in severe disruption of routine services. Several major airports close because of high absenteeism among air traffic controllers and risk of passengers contracting the disease. Health and other essential community services deteriorate further as the pandemic sweeps across the world. NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

As what you have stated, hospitals and outpatient clinics are critically short-staffed as doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers themselves become ill or are afraid to come to work. Intensive care units at local hospitals are overwhelmed, and soon there are insufficient ventilators for the treatment of viral complications such as pneumonia patients.

Fearing infection, elderly patients with chronic medical conditions do not dare to leave home. Parents are distraught when their healthy young adult sons and daughters die within days of first becoming ill.

Pandemics, whether mild, moderate or severe, affect a large proportion of the population and require a multi-sectoral response over several months or even years. For this reason, plans need to be developed by healthcare organizations describing strategies for responding to a pandemic supported by operational plans at the local, national and sub-national levels. Great post!

Response.

I can totally relate to the feeling of uncertainty during COVID-19 early staffing days in the ICU. I am cath lab nurse that frequently rotates in and out of the ED or ICU.  Being sent back to the ICU while outpatient procedures were on hold and taking a team of med-surg nurses helping for the day was an overwhelming feeling. Laureate education (2015) states, that one thing that individuals and leaders can do to be prepared for healthcare challenges of the future is to develop cultural competency, gain skills to view multiple perspectives, and develop greater understanding the survival side of any healthcare organization.  Having non-ICU trained RNs helping was a blessing and a curse, but all the while knowing that it was vital to the care of these patients. Now that we are on this side of COVID -19 I also feel, as you stated, more comfortable for the future should we be put in this position again, but the learning process was hard, and involved an extensive learning curve of trial and error.  The stressors you talked about on nurses directly effecting patient care is now the situation we have found ourselves in at my organization.  Everyone is exhaling a bit now that the virus is seeming to be on the decline.  The scary and stress filled portion of that is nurses are now losing their jobs due to poor organizational leadership of organizations or that there just aren’t enough people to be taken care of right now coming into the hospital.  I think it is safe to say that there is not one aspect of patient care or one healthcare worker around the globe that hasn’t been touched by this virus! Thanks for sharing your post, it was a great read!

-Kelly

References

American Hospital Association. (2020). Hospital and health systems face unprecedented

financial pressures due to COVID-19. Retrieved June 6, 2020 from

https://www.aha.org/guidesreports/2020-05-05-hospitals-and-health-systems-face-unprecedented-financial-pressures-due

Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Leading in Healthcare Organizations of the Future

[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. NURS 6053 week 1 Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues

NURS_6053_Module01_Week01_Discussion_Rubric

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45 (45%) – 50 (50%)

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At least 75% of post has exceptional depth and breadth.

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Written clearly and concisely with one or no grammatical or spelling errors and fully adheres to current APA manual writing rules and style.
 
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Responds to some of the discussion question(s).

One or two criteria are not addressed or are superficially addressed.

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Somewhat represents knowledge gained from the course readings for the module.

Post is cited with two credible sources.

Written somewhat concisely; may contain more than two spelling or grammatical errors.

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Lacks reflection and critical analysis and synthesis.

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Contains only one or no credible sources.

Not written clearly or concisely.

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Does not adhere to current APA manual writing rules and style.
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10 (10%) – 10 (10%)
Posts main post by day 3.
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
Does not post by day 3.
First Response
 
17 (17%) – 18 (18%)

Response exhibits synthesis, critical thinking, and application to practice settings.

Responds fully to questions posed by faculty.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by at least two scholarly sources.

Demonstrates synthesis and understanding of learning objectives.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are fully answered, if posed.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.
 
15 (15%) – 16 (16%)

Response exhibits critical thinking and application to practice settings.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are answered, if posed.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by two or more credible sources.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.
 
13 (13%) – 14 (14%)

Response is on topic and may have some depth.

Responses posted in the discussion may lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are somewhat answered, if posed.

Response may lack clear, concise opinions and ideas, and a few or no credible sources are cited.
 
0 (0%) – 12 (12%)

Response may not be on topic and lacks depth.

Responses posted in the discussion lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are missing.

No credible sources are cited.
Second Response
 
16 (16%) – 17 (17%)

Response exhibits synthesis, critical thinking, and application to practice settings.

Responds fully to questions posed by faculty.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by at least two scholarly sources.

Demonstrates synthesis and understanding of learning objectives.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are fully answered, if posed.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.
 
14 (14%) – 15 (15%)

Response exhibits critical thinking and application to practice settings.

Communication is professional and respectful to colleagues.

Responses to faculty questions are answered, if posed.

Provides clear, concise opinions and ideas that are supported by two or more credible sources.

Response is effectively written in standard, edited English.
 
12 (12%) – 13 (13%)

Response is on topic and may have some depth. COVID-19 NURS 6053 national healthcare issue/stressor discussion

Responses posted in the discussion may lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are somewhat answered, if posed.

Response may lack clear, concise opinions and ideas, and a few or no credible sources are cited.
 
0 (0%) – 11 (11%)

Response may not be on topic and lacks depth.

Responses posted in the discussion lack effective professional communication.

Responses to faculty questions are missing.

No credible sources are cited.
Participation
 
5 (5%) – 5 (5%)
Meets requirements for participation by posting on three different days.
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
 
0 (0%) – 0 (0%)
Does not meet requirements for participation by posting on 3 different days.
Total Points: 100

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