Nursing administrators are often called upon to provide descriptive, factual, and unbiased information on a current nursing topic of interest as a foundation for group discussions. This sometimes happens as part of strategic planning. The purpose of this assignment is two-fold. The first purpose is to investigate a current issue and/or trend in nursing and its relationship to current or pending legislation, regulatory standards, nursing standards of practice, and the impact of the trend on organization and patient care quality and safety. The second purpose is to provide an opportunity to engage in a specific form of scholarly inquiry, expository writing. (CO2, CO3, CO4, CO5)
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to do the following.
Evaluate human resource theories and processes, including implementation of professional practice models and strategies in healthcare settings to support a caring environment. (PO2, Appraise the effects of strategies to reduce costs and improve the quality and safety of healthcare. (PO1 & PO4)
Organize legal and regulatory components of healthcare strategies to promote safety and quality care. (PO1 & PO4)
Synthesize and communicate research findings to promote quality improvement and safety in healthcare. (PO1& PO4)
Nursing administrators have a responsibility to remain current with knowledge of emerging trends in healthcare and their potential impact on nursing practice, safe and quality patient care, and on the costs, risks and/or benefits to the organization. How these trends or issues translate into practice is often determined by legal and regulatory actions as well nursing standards of practice.
The focus of the quarterly regional meeting of your state nurses’ association is on current issues/trends affecting nursing practice. The meeting will be divided into three group forums, each focused on a different trend/issue. You have been asked to provide a short paper on one of the current trends/issues occurring in healthcare delivery that will be the focus of one of the group forums.
Trends and Issues in Current Nursing Practice
1. Telehealth/Telemedicine
2. Mandatory Overtime
3. Patient Violence to Nursing
select one of the three topics above about which you will develop an expository type of essay to be shared among the members of the group forum. (An expository essay is one that presents factual, unbiased information on a subject.) Each section provides calls for specific and factual information about the topic with one section at the end for your opinion and rationale based on your findings from your exploration.