NUR 2868 DQ How Can You To Educate Clients in Your Community?
NUR 2868 DQ How Can You To Educate Clients in Your Community?
The ANA has stated, “Education for those in the health-care professions must increase in depth and breadth as scientific knowledge expands” (Catalano, 2012, p.91) According to Catalano, there has been a lack of adequate preparation for educating clients with self-management concerns, particularly clients with chronic illnesses, and this lack of education is a serious violation of ethical responsibilities by health care providers.
Do you agree or disagree with these statement and why? Is the failure to properly educate clients the fault of the Nurse? Does the Nurse’s level of education matter? Why do you feel that way?
Many organizations, experts, health professionals, and, increasingly, the American public question whether quality health care can be delivered under the existing health care system, noting that health care today harms too frequently and consistently fails to deliver its potential benefits (Blendon et al., 2001; Kaiser Family Foundation and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2000; Wirthlin Worldwide, 2001). Studies by expert bodies first documented the serious and pervasive nature of the quality problem with reports of overuse of services, such as excessive prescribing of antibiotics to children; misuse of services, such as incorrect dosages of drugs being administered to patients; and underuse of services, such as not employing effective prevention strategies with patients (Chassin, 1998; President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, 1998; Schuster et al., 1998). Such errors, as documented by the authors of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, result in tens of thousands of Americans dying each year and hundreds of thousands suffering or being sick (Institute of Medicine, 2000).
NUR 2868 DQ How Can You To Educate Clients in Your Community?
In the report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (Institute of Medicine, 2001) the same Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that authored To Err Is Human emphasizes that such safety problems occur because of the system’s inability to translate knowledge into practice, to apply new technology safely and appropriately, and to make best use of its resources—both financial and human. In the face of these system failures, the Quality Chasm report stresses that the rapidly increasing chronic care population only compounds the need for a redesigned health system. Fully 40 percent of the U.S. population—125 million Americans—live with some type of chronic condition, and about half of them live with multiple such conditions (Wu and Green, 2000).
The Quality Chasm report also emphasizes that blaming health providers or asking them to just try harder is not the answer to addressing the health care system’s current flaws and future challenges. Gaps in quality are occurring in the hands of health professionals highly dedicated to doing a good job, but working within a system that does not support them in achieving what they want and ought to be providing for patients. The Quality Chasm report sets forth an ambitious agenda for the redesign of this broken health care system. First, the system must be designed to provide care that achieves six national quality aims: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity. The system must serve the needs of patients, ensuring that they are fully informed, retain control, participate in care delivery whenever possible, and receive care that is respectful of their values and preferences. Moreover, the system must facilitate the application of scientific knowledge to practice by providing clinicians with the tools and support necessary to deliver evidence-based care consistently and safely.