Problem
Burroughs, J. (2018, June 11). How To Understand U.S. Healthcare? Follow The Money. This video is closed-captioned.
Clinical variation in healthcare contributes to the third leading cause of death in the United States. For this discussion post, view the video and address these questions:
1) How can nurses contribute to decreasing variation in their professional practice? Give some examples of how you have seen this accomplished in your healthcare experiences.
2) Give one example of how you think a standard approach to an aspect of patient care might decrease variation and improve quality.
3) Describe the barriers that exist for professional nurses to promote standardization of care practices to decrease variability?