Home health care
This assessment addresses the following learning objective(s):
Examine the effect of legal, ethical, and regulatory processes on nursing practices (and/or change to providers), healthcare delivery, and outcomes while maintaining balance with administrative and fiscal responsibilities.
Instructions
The healthcare industry is made up of diverse people and teams. This includes individuals who create policies, groups who lobby for legislation, and the people and teams who implement and follow laws and policies. For this assignment, you will reflect on your role, past, present, and future, regarding health policies. While research is encouraged for this assignment, in-text citations are not necessary. The purpose of this assignment is to provide your instructor with your knowledge framework and allow you to reflect on your knowledge and identify biases.
In an introductory paragraph, briefly summarize your scope of knowledge regarding health policy, both state/federal, and organizational policies.
In a second paragraph, explain why you wish to develop a deeper understanding of the policy creation, implementation, and assessment process. For example, how will understanding health policy improve your professional practice?
In a closing paragraph, address the following questions:
What biases/strong opinions do you have regarding health policy (state, federal, organizational policies)?
What caused those biases/opinions to develop (personal experiences, patient interactions, etc.)?
How will you respectfully maintain or evolve your bias/opinions as you advance in this course, and your career?
What is your primary source of information for staying up-to-date on state and federal health policy (names of publications, websites, organization-disseminated information, etc.)?
Sample Solution
Organizational health policies are also an important part of providing safe and high-quality care in any setting. They provide guidance on how patient data should be handled according to HIPAA regulations as well as guidelines for managing infectious disease outbreaks within clinical settings or other institutions such as schools or workplaces. Additionally, organizational policies outline specific roles within a hospital or clinic that may include practices such as review boards for clinical trials or consent processes for medical treatments or surgeries.
In my current role at an outpatient primary care clinic, I am responsible for making sure that all staff comply with our organization’s regulations around patient data privacy and infection control standards like handwashing protocols before seeing each patient. My supervisor also relies on me to help inform him about any updates from state or federal agencies regarding changes in policy that might affect our operations here in New York City; this includes things like telemedicine legislation changes during COVID-19 which have allowed us to offer virtual visits safely while limiting staffing exposure risk in our office space.
