Dealing with shortages of health care professionals
Shortage of healthcare professionals is a significant issue in the healthcare organizations of the USA. The lack of proper healthcare knowledge, training and inability of using updated healthcare technology are the reasons behind the skilful healthcare professional in the USA. The latest report has disclosed more than 13000 healthcare professional shortage in the USA.
Issue of health professional shortage is affecting quality care delivery. Patients are not availing the healthcare facility, which they should get for apparent reason. Healthcare administrators must start a professional training course in the healthcare organization to fulfil the need of healthcare staffs.
Allowing nurses to practice in a way that utilizes their education and training
Nurses should be given the opportunity to practice in a way that they can properly use their education and training. The nursing code of ethics allows the nursing professionals to ensure quality care to all the patients irrespective of the socio-economic barrier. Thus, healthcare administrators should take the initiative to provide an environment that supports the nursing performance of care professionals. For example- creating a diversified background and using technical modules for nursing care communication for a more coordinated care facility.
Nurses often face difficulty while dealing with critical healthcare issues. They must be provided proper support from senior administrator so that they can perform accordingly. Thus, nurses must be allowed to perform the way they were trained.
Nurses to be trained in community health, public health, and geriatrics
Community healthcare development is a holistic approach for the American government. Thus, nurses must be properly trained for community health, public health and geriatric healthcare processes. A proper understanding about the community healthcare facility and geriatric care can be adequate for the nursing care staffs to perform more efficiently in various community health campaigns by ensuring appropriate health check-ups and medications to the healthcare consumers.
Apart from that, nursing care staffs must be trained to communicate all healthcare consumers during the community healthcare campaigns. Moreover, communication improvement can also be beneficial while providing geriatric care. Thus, ensuring training to nursing care staffs on community and public health and geriatric care supports the community health development initiative of the government.