Organizational and Professional Leadership

Organizational and Professional Leadership

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RE: Discussion – Week 3 – Initial Post – Holly Orme

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Nursing 6053; Interprofessional, Organizational and Professional Leadership

Week 3 – Initial Post

Policy in healthcare is vitally important as it sets a general plan of action used to guide desired outcomes and is a fundamental guideline to help make decisions. The purpose of healthcare policy and procedures is to communicate to employees the desired outcomes of the organization. They help employees understand their roles and responsibilities within the organization. In the healthcare environment specifically, a policy should set the foundation for the delivery of safe and cost-effective quality care.

With the continued increase in new regulations and requirements, such as the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, and Meaningful Use, the encumbrance of setting policies and effectively communicating these to the employees has become nearly impossible.

For every new law or regulation, new or updated, policies must be created and be disseminated to staff. There are regularly changing provisions within the federal healthcare requirements, state laws and regulations, CMS Conditions of Participation, Joint Commission Standards, and other accreditation requirements. It is difficult to ensure up every new law or regulation update, as well as, ensuring policies and procedures are effectively rolled out to employees is even more complicated.

There are various solutions available to policy-makers seeking to enhance the pre-service and in-service training available to health workers. The appropriate options will vary from place to place. Accreditation requires institutions to show how well they are meeting their training objectives. A recent survey of medical schools shows that accreditation programs are unevenly spread around the globe. Efforts are also being extended to accreditation beyond schools of medicine and nursing to other health training institutions. Education and training can play a significant role in determining health care professionals’ proficiency with the most recent interventions and technologies

The best healthcare organizations must use both technology and education to manage their healthcare policies and procedures. Technology solutions become critical facilitators to streamline this process. It can help in providing a controlled framework for updating, authorizing, and communicating to the organization, as well as, ensure that older policies are properly archived and not disseminated in a fashion that can impact patient care.

The knowledge base of the health workforce must rapidly be improved so those policy decisions at local, national and international levels can be evidence-based and responsive to the increasing need for health workers and the challenges of meeting this need (WHO, 2018). For example, policy management systems allow for streamlined updating and notification tools to make staff aware of the changes are critical. It is also important to allow easy access to view the documents and communicate these changes throughout an organization.

The education of the health workforce is of crucial importance if the world is to meet its major health challenges, such as achieving the Millennium Development Goals, preventing and treating chronic diseases and responding to emergencies. Policy-makers worldwide must focus on expanding the capacity to train and educate the future workforce. The world needs an adaptable and appropriately skilled health workforce of “lifelong learners” who know how to find and implement new information and skills. The costs of creating this workforce of the future will be significant (WHO).

References

Laureate Education (Producer). (2009b). Working with Individuals [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Layhee, T. (2018). The Importance of Healthcare Policy and Procedures. Policy Medical. Retrieved from https://www.policymedical.com/importance-healthcare-policy-and-procedures/

World Health Organization (2018). Retrieved from https://www.who.int/hrh/education/en/