A Substantive Response to the Discussion Question or Topic

A Substantive Response to the Discussion Question or Topic

The delivery of quality healthcare services depends on the competence of nursing professionals. Competence, in this case, refers to their ability to collaborate with other relevant stakeholders like community nurses, patients, community leaders, and government agencies. Through such ways, nurses can deliver the needed quality of care and achieve the desired outcome.

I agree that the success of strategies depends on the implementation process. Doctors and nurses must execute the desired plans aligned with the set goals and objectives of the relevant medical institution. Knowledge of the desired plans requires nurses to collect the necessary data from the target population. You provide a perfect example of nurses targeting parents and gather needed data on how to reduce constipation in a pediatric population. After searching and gathering the required evidence, nurse practitioners can use their clinical expertise and implement the required strategies.

Changes in healthcare occur daily, and nursing professionals must learn how to adapt to meet set goals and objectives. Successful adaptation requires medical professionals to evaluate gathered evidence to determine the origin of problems. I can add that collaborating with the community helps to collect the required data more effectively. This can be achieved by having physical offices, for instance, of doctors where community members can visit to discuss the problems they face. Such activities allow healthcare professionals to monitor the health of community members and make competent decisions that lead to the delivery of quality care. Such policies and activities work effectively to ensure the success of public health programs. More importantly, healthcare institutions can collaborate with relevant government organizations to meet the needs of the community by acquiring the needed workforce and resources.

To conclude, partnerships between government agencies and medical institutions help provide the required resources to deliver quality care. Nurse practitioners need to gather the necessary evidence and implement required solutions within the community. All in all, the delivery of quality care requires the collaborative efforts of all relevant stakeholders.

References

Joel, L. A., Pacquiao, D., & Navarro, V. (2018). Case Study: Nursing Organizational Approaches to Population and Workforce Diversity. In Global Applications of Culturally Competent Health Care: Guidelines for Practice (pp. 329-335). Springer, Cham.

Kavanagh, J. M., & Szweda, C. (2017). A crisis in competency: The strategic and ethical imperative to assessing new graduate nurses’ clinical reasoning. Nursing Education Perspectives, 38(2), 57-62. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000112