Discussion of Leadership
Resources are a contending need in a health care setting that may affect the development of policy. The management should develop a policy that promotes a balanced allocation of financial and human resources to all departments and initiatives (Hardin, Kilian, & Spykerman, 2017). The management has the mandate to determine the actual needs before allocating resources. In this case, these needs may hinder the development of policies in cases where the hospital intends to practice economies of scale. For instance, the management may focus on reducing the cost of operation by allowing nurses to work for longer hours. However, the situation may lower the quality of services delivered to patients due to increased errors in service delivery.
Patients are a pressing need that might affect the understanding of diagnosis and management of obesity. The number of patients who require acute care may be high, which may affect the learning abilities of the nurses (Hardin, Kilian, & Spykerman, 2017). The statement implies that it might be hard to train the nurses on the diagnosis and management of the obese condition. The need to spend many hours attending to patients and meet the expectations of the management will leads to a situation where nurses lack adequate time to improve their necessary skills. For example, the need to attend to patients may hinder the ability to understand the best way to diagnose the disease, the ethnic groups that have a high prevalence, and the right medication for controlling the condition (Hardin, Kilian, & Spykerman, 2017). The possible impacts include continued use of less effective health management activities. Besides, the nurses will lose their competency in dealing with the continued problem of obesity since they fail to understand its root cause.Discussion of Leadership
References
Hardin, L., Kilian, A., & Spykerman, K. (2017). Competing for health care systems and complex patients: An inter-professional collaboration to improve outcomes and reduce health care costs. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 7, 5–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2017.01.002