DNP 825 Discuss a health-related need present in your community
Many nurses and health care workers have lost their lives due to hospital facilities un-preparedness when it comes to dealings with pandemics such as COVID-19 by ensuring that enough health protection equipment’s were readily available to provide for healthcare workers and nurses who sacrifice a lot to ensure that there is provision of quality health leading to recovery (Shrader, Assadzandi, Pilkerton, & Ashcraft, 2020).
During the pandemic, nurses felt more stressed, had fewer flow experiences, and were less satisfied with their work, life, work-performance, and well-being than before the pandemic. In addition, nurses felt more appreciation from society but less from their patients. Sense of humor and the perceived appreciation of society and patients were confirmed as buffers of negative pandemic-related effects. Nurses have been at the forefront of the fight against health-threatening epidemics worldwide and will continue to fight on the front lines in the future. In this struggle, it is important for nurses to provide holistic patient care, continuity in nursing care, shortening of hospital stay due to the pandemic, reducing mortality, reducing infection and increasing the quality of life. For the nurses to provide the desired/expected care, they must have good working conditions, adequate nutrition and rest, and the PPE they use should not cause any harm (Rosner E, 2020).
Among the methodology that will be used to solve these challenges is by writing a bill that will be introduced in the congress thus ensuring that the issue is legislated and given the much concentration it requires. To be included in the bills provision is calling and
proposing for an increased emergency fund that will be used to purchase protective equipment’s for working nurses. All healthcare organizations should be inspected regularly to assess their compliance on ensuring that they provide safety equipment’s to protect nurses. Lastly, any organizations that fails to put in place effective measures to provide effective should be punished accordingly to ensure that they comply (Mello, Greene, J. A., & Sharfstein, 2020).
Among measures that APNs might use when collaborating with direct care nurses to implement evidence-based changes based on community health improvement programs will include formation of a joint committee that will carry out effective research on the issue before they may report to respective authorities. The joint meeting should be able to combine their expertise in documenting and indicating the number of nurses who lost their lives due to lack of protective equipment’s. After formation of the document, it will be easy to forward the complaints and bills to respective parties in healthcare system for implementation. The other strategy is organizing
effective campaigns that will ensure that the plights of nurses when it comes to lack of access to effective protective equipment’s is heard. They may achieve the same by mobilizing all individuals at their levels to down their tools if they are ignored thus putting pressure for effective action.
References
Mello, M. M., Greene, J. A., & Sharfstein,J. M. (2020). Attacks on public health officials during COVID-19. Jama, 324(8), 741-742.
Rosner E . Adverse effects of prolonged mask use among healthcare professionals during COVID-19. J Infect Dis Epidemiol. 2020;6(3):130.
Shrader, C. D., Assadzandi, S., Pilkerton, C. S., & Ashcraft, A. M. (2020). Responding to a COVID-19 Outbreak at a Long-Term Care Facility. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0733464820959163.
