Summary: Understanding Issues Facing Health Care Professionals
Understanding Issues Facing Health Care Professionals
Nurses play an extremely vital role in the world of healthcare and make up the backbone of the health care system. Florence Nightingale is noted as one of the first trained nurses. She trained at the first organized school of nursing, founded in Kaiserworth, Germany in 1846. Nursing has evolved exponentially since then. Technology changed the face of medicine and increased the workload for nurses. Currently, the United States is experiencing an extreme shortage of nurses and many nurses are "burned out" by the high demands of the profession. However, consumers expect well-trained and experienced nurses providing care in hospitals, clinics, and home health care facilities. Regulatory …show more content…
The Board of Nurse Examiners includes a criminal investigation unit to investigate criminal charges against nurses ensuring license suspension if a nurse is not cleared of charges. Nurses are required to renew their licenses every two years.
The Joint Commission was established over 50 years ago by a group of healthcare professionals as a peer review and evaluates the quality and safety of care of 15,000 health care organizations. To maintain and earn accreditation, organizations must have an extensive onsite review by a team of JCAHO health care professionals at least once every three years.
(http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/who+jc/index.htm). The Joint Commission sets …show more content…
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Additionally, the "graying of America" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 5), Americans living longer, has left the nursing profession " holding a double-edged sword" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 4). As medical technology advances our lifespan continually increases. Illnesses once considered fatal are now merely chronic illnesses which give the profession cause to reevaluate its changing role in the care of the ill.
The United States is a veritable melting pot of diversity which is another significant trend facing nursing. "The consequence is a medical community challenged with accommodating a myriad of ethnic groups, each with different values, attitudes and traditions, in a way that provides equal care to each person" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 5). Other issues the profession must address include: a means of effectively integrating new technologies, new treatments and new drugs into patient care; the growing trend of diseases carried from one nation to another; and the aging of the nursing work
Nurses play an extremely vital role in the world of healthcare and make up the backbone of the health care system. Florence Nightingale is noted as one of the first trained nurses. She trained at the first organized school of nursing, founded in Kaiserworth, Germany in 1846. Nursing has evolved exponentially since then. Technology changed the face of medicine and increased the workload for nurses. Currently, the United States is experiencing an extreme shortage of nurses and many nurses are "burned out" by the high demands of the profession. However, consumers expect well-trained and experienced nurses providing care in hospitals, clinics, and home health care facilities. Regulatory …show more content…
The Board of Nurse Examiners includes a criminal investigation unit to investigate criminal charges against nurses ensuring license suspension if a nurse is not cleared of charges. Nurses are required to renew their licenses every two years.
The Joint Commission was established over 50 years ago by a group of healthcare professionals as a peer review and evaluates the quality and safety of care of 15,000 health care organizations. To maintain and earn accreditation, organizations must have an extensive onsite review by a team of JCAHO health care professionals at least once every three years.
(http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/who+jc/index.htm). The Joint Commission sets …show more content…
3).
Additionally, the "graying of America" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 5), Americans living longer, has left the nursing profession " holding a double-edged sword" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 4). As medical technology advances our lifespan continually increases. Illnesses once considered fatal are now merely chronic illnesses which give the profession cause to reevaluate its changing role in the care of the ill.
The United States is a veritable melting pot of diversity which is another significant trend facing nursing. "The consequence is a medical community challenged with accommodating a myriad of ethnic groups, each with different values, attitudes and traditions, in a way that provides equal care to each person" (O'Neil Mundinger, 2004, par. 5). Other issues the profession must address include: a means of effectively integrating new technologies, new treatments and new drugs into patient care; the growing trend of diseases carried from one nation to another; and the aging of the nursing work