The work environment matters in that the nurse provides quality care and safety to patients. The full application of skills and knowledge can enhance healthcare services, and the patient’s health depends solely on nurses’ services. Several reasons can affect the nurse’s service standards, including lack of funds, outdated policies, and lack of support.
The nature of the work that nurses perform is essential, and they can contribute highly to the improvement of these services. The first and for most initiative is to have leadership skill that can help take decisions that can serve the core work of health care and which is providing the finest care to patients even without the presence of supervision.
The main issue regarding patient care involves two entities: the first one is the patient himself/herself, and the second entity is the loved ones who are concerned. The patient’s loved ones need guidance to follow the corrective actions to be fully supportive rather than unaware of what is happening (Babiker et al., 2014). Nurses can contribute in several ways to the betterment of healthcare. The encouragement and the dialogues between the higher authorities and nurses can help in policy-shaping according to the needs of the healthcare department because the nurses who are in the workforce working on the front line know the implications of the nature of work. The nurses can offer other contributions as well, which can help the healthcare department by using the data from their experiences to focus on their efforts, which means that patients who are not in critical situations can be dealt with by nurses alone according to their expertise. The use of technology can also help in shaping the healthcare department. Most doctors use technological instruments only, but the nurse should also operate those instruments in the hour of need.
Initiatives in the United States of America are taking place to improve nursing professionals. The government is giving leadership roles to nurses and giving them the authority to fully participate in patient care with physicians as full partners so that they can learn more and make decisions that will help strengthen the healthcare department (Regan, Laschinger & Wong, 2016). The initiatives specifically taking place in Florida cover four major points. The first point is educating the nurses in both academics and facilitating the nurses’ access to educational progress. The second one is the work environment, in which the focus is now on the retention policy for the workers by managing the demand and supply of nurses. The third point focuses on the research to build and evaluate the actions. The fourth one is to make such policies that will be in the favor of nurses and provide strategic guidance to nurses (“Florida Center for Nursing > Welcome”, 2018).
References
Babiker, A., El Husseini, M., Al Nemri, A., Al Frayh, A., Al Juryyan, N., Faki, M. O., … Al Zamil, F. (2014). Healthcare professional development: Working as a team to improve patient care. Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics, 14(2), 9–16.
Regan, S., Laschinger, H. K., & Wong, C. A. (2016). The influence of empowerment, authentic leadership, and professional practice environments on nurses’ perceived interprofessional collaboration. Journal of Nursing Management, 24(1).
Florida Center for Nursing > Welcome. (2018). Flcenterfornursing.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018, from https://www.flcenterfornursing.org
