As their names imply, the honeyguide bird and the honey badger both share an affinity for honey. Honeyguide birds specialize in finding beehives but struggle to access the honey within. Honey badgers are well-equipped to raid beehives but cannot always find them. However, these two honey-loving species have learned to collaborate on an effective means to meet their objectives. The honeyguide bird guides honey badgers to newly discovered hives. Once the honey badger has ransacked the hive, the honey guide bird safely enters to enjoy the leftover honey.

Much like honeyguide birds and honey badgers, nurses and health professionals from other specialty areas can—and should—collaborate to design effective programs. Nurses bring specialties to the table that make them natural partners to professionals with different specialties. When nurses take the requisite leadership in becoming involved throughout the healthcare system, these partnerships can better design and deliver highly effective programs that meet objectives.

In this Assignment, you will practice this type of leadership by advocating for a healthcare program. Equally as important, you will advocate for a collaborative role of the nurse in the design and implementation of this program. To do this, assume you are preparing to be interviewed by a professional organization/publication regarding your thoughts on the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.

 

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on your thinking regarding the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.
• Select a healthcare program within your practice and consider the design and implementation of this program.
• Reflect on advocacy efforts and the role of the nurse in relation to healthcare program design and implementation.

In a 2- to 4-page, create an interview transcript of your responses to the following interview questions:

• Tell us about a healthcare program, within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?
• Who is your target population?
• What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?
• What is your role as an advocate for your target population for this healthcare program? Do you have input into design decisions? How else do you impact design?
• What is the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation? How does this role vary between design and implementation of healthcare programs? Can you provide examples?
• Who are the members of a healthcare team that you believe are most needed to implement a program? Can you explain why?

Weekly Resources

   

• Short, N. M. (2022). Milstead’s health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (7th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 4, “Policy Analysis and Design” (pp. 77–93)
  • Chapter 9, “The Influence of Patient Health Data on Health Policy” (pp. 197–217)
  • Chapter 10, “Financing Health Care” (pp. 247–257 only)
• American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). AdvocacyLinks to an external site.. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy
• Congress.govLinks to an external site.. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.congress.gov/
• Klein, K. J., & Sorra, J. S. (1996). The challenge of innovation implementationLinks to an external site.. Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1055–1080.
• Office of Policy, Performance, and Evaluation. (2019). The CDC policy processLinks to an external site.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/policy/polaris/policyprocess/index.html
• Sacristán, J., & Dilla, T. D. (2015). No big data without small data: Learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patientLinks to an external site.. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), 1014–1017.
• Tummers, L., & Bekkers, V. (2014). Policy implementation, street level bureaucracy, and the importance of discretionLinks to an external site.. Public Management Review, 16(4), 527–547.

Discuss the importance of language or voice when writing the research narrative. 

All discussion posts must be a minimum of 250 words peer responses, references must be cited in APA format 7th Edition, and must include a minimum of 2 scholarly resources published within the past 5 years.

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The Governmental Role in Healthcare

When speaking about the state of healthcare in the U.S. and who is responsible it is common to blame the government, indeed if one hears a refrain often enough it becomes the truth, right?

The U.S. government operates neither the health care delivery system nor the health services financing system in anything close to their entirety. In fact, in the United States, government is less involved with the provision of health care (in contrast to the payment for health services, with which it is heavily involved) than in any other industrialized country in the world.

But the truth is:

It is important to understand that when politicians throw the term “socialized medicine” around they are doing a disservice to the facts, seeking to sensationalize a topic that is far too important to be treated like a political tool to be manipulated. The statement above is true. With the exception of part of the military healthcare system, the federal government plays a minimal role in the provision of healthcare in the U.S. It has a much larger role in paying for healthcare, however, as the manager of two large payers, Medicare and Medicaid. Insurers (mostly through employment) and the patient pay about 50% of the costs with governmental reimbursement picking up the other half.

Is socialized medicine a bad thing? That opinion, of course, would vary from person to person, but it is important to note that every single industrialized nation provides some sort of socialized medicine model except the U.S.

Wait, let’s say that again.

Every single industrialized nation provides some sort of socialized medicine model except the U.S.

I have known healthcare workers who lived in Canada with one socialized medicine model who flew back and forth to the U.S. to work multiple days in a row in the U.S. Why? Because they would not leave the healthcare system Canada provides for its citizens. And they did not want to pay the costs associated with the cobbled-together U.S. system. Is the Canadian system better than the U.S.? Once again, the answer likely depends on how wealthy you are. No country can provide everything for everyone. Healthcare is a scarce resource that gets rationed regardless. But that rationing will look different depending upon the model. In Canada, for example, rationing occurs by waitlisting nonemergent treatment. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed specialist physicians across 12 specialties and 10 provinces.

…overall, waiting times for medically necessary treatment have increased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 22.6 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 20.9 weeks reported in 2019. This year’s wait time is the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history and is 143% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.

Source: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2020

Now, I am not picking on Canada. People GO to Canada for its healthcare, not vice versa. Every industrialized nation has to do something, similar or dissimilar, to ration the use of care.

But few do it on the backs of the poor.

Why are some against socialized medicine? Primarily because it goes against their preferred model of smaller government is better government. But also because they are fortunate enough to have healthcare. And they do not feel healthcare is a right.

Our forefathers certainly had no concept of responsibility of the Federal Government, nor of the state government, for health protection of the people. This was solely a local governmental responsibility. When Benjamin Franklin wrote “Health is Wealth” in the Farmers’ Almanac, he was saying that health was a commodity to be bought, to be sold, to be conserved, or to be wasted. But he considered that health conservation was the responsibility of the individual, not of government. The local community was responsible only for the protection of its citizens against the hazards of community life. – Jonas, 2021

The U.S. did not grow up on socialized medicine, nor big government, nor did the Constitution place this responsibility on it.

Expand your understanding of how important watershed moments have pushed healthcare systems to where they are today (watershed: an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend).

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

• Complete      readings and videos.
• How      do you think the founding fathers viewed healthcare?
• Has      this view changed among the majority in the US and do you agree? Why or      why not?
• List      five pivotal impacts that changed the direction of healthcare over the   
•    centuries.

• Discuss      if you think we can improve healthcare for all without socialized      medicine.
• Cite      any references. Proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling are      required. Use your own words. Copying and pasting are not allowed. 200      words

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