Assignment: Heart Failure Clinic Resourcing Plan
Overview
Write a 3-4 page evidence-based resourcing plan for one component of the Heart Failure Clinic.
It is important for the nurse leader to have not only a basic understanding of the budget process, but to understand how to work with variances in staffing, patient loads, and supply costs in order to meet the needs of the patients, without compromising the funding process of the clinic.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 3: Apply management strategies and best practices for health care finance, human resources, and materials allocation decisions to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes.
o Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
o Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
• Competency 4: Apply professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct in professional practice.
o Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.
• Competency 5: Communicate in manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
o Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.
Reference
Kelly, P., &Tazbir, J. (2014). Essentials of nursing leadership and management (3rd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar.
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Context
Health care delivery is a complex process and system that includes multiple delivery sites such as hospitals, ambulatory-care centers, private-provider offices, community-health facilities, home-care agencies, and extended-care facilities. Managed care is a method used to reimburse or pay for health care service. It includes more than just payment; it also controls the delivery services. Health care reform has been undertaken for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are access and health disparities issues. Nursing within an organization is a critical component of health care delivery and is an essential ingredient in patient outcomes (Kelly &Tazbir, 2014
Questions to Consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.
For the following questions, you may wish to review the Brown, Bornstein, and Wilcox article "Partnership and Empowerment Program: A Model for Patient-Centered, Comprehensive, and Cost-Effective Care," listed in the Unit Resources.
• Who makes you accountable for the delegation that you use in your organization, as well as on a state and national level?
• Are there ways you could initiate greater collaboration with the health care team by using delegation?
• What is the purpose of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing delegation decision-making tree?
• What is the long-term implication related to health care cost if the patient or patient population continues to have poor outcomes related to cost containment?
• How can you address cost within your organization, as a nursing leader, and how is this related to patient outcomes?
Attachment:- Heart-Failure-Clinic-Resourcing-Plan.rar