HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS, CONSTRAINTS, PLANNING PROCESS, POLICIES, POLITICAL PROCCESS VIS A VIS NURSING PROFESSION

By:- Firoz QureshiDept. Psychiatric Nursing

NURSING PROFESSIONNursing is the profession within the health care

sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.

HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT

WHO (draft definition developed at a WHO consultation in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1993)—Environmental health comprises of those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations.

HEALTH ECONOMICS Health Economics is a branch of economics

concerned with issues related to scarcity in the allocation of health and health care.

It is a sub division of economics and studies the allocation of scarce resources among alternative health care programs on strategies for the promotion, maintenance and improvement of health.

IMPORTANCE Health economics in nursing is extremely

important in patient care. It can explain non-compliance with meds (too expensive), nutrition problems, and many other factors you will encounter when dealing with and assessing your patient.

ECONOMICS IN NURSING

UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS

Economics is present in and has effects on everything. This is because economics covers such a wide range of subtopics. Not only does the science deal with what people buy and sell, it also describes how people interact with one another in non-monetary ways. It's important to understand a few of the ways in which nursing interacts with economics. 

ECONOMICS IN NURSING

Employment Supply and Demand

Subsidies

Incentives

Elasticity of Supply

SEVERAL CONTRAINTS REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NURSING.1. Nursing diagnoses, nursing-sensitive outcomes, and

nursing interventions that are documented.

2. The effectiveness of nursing interventions in achieving patient outcomes, nursing data; lack of one-to-one linkages of nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions; the lack of integration, linkage, and maintenance of standardized nomenclatures in the documentation of care planned and the documentation of care actually received by the patients.

3. The inability to retrieve some data.

PLANNING PROCESS

PLAN :- Plan is a scheme, program or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective.

A category of nursing behaviour in which a strategy is designed to achieve the goals of care of a patient as established in assessing and analyzing.

PLANNING

Planning is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.

A nursing care plan is a part of the nursing process which outlines the plan of action that will be implemented during the patient’s medical care.

NURSING PLANNING PROCESS

POLICIES Policy means statement of intentions and

time frame to achieve the goals.

NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES

  A programme is an organized aggegregate of activities

directed towards the attainment of defined objectives and targets; National Health Programmes, which have been launched by the Central government for the control eradication of communicable diseases, improvement of environmental sanitation, raising the standard of nutrition, control of population and improving rural health.

OBJECTIVES OF NPP To address the “unmet needs of contraceptions, health care

infrastructure and health care personnel and to provide integrated service delivery for basic reproductive AND child health care.

To bring total fertility rate (TFR) to 2.1 (replacement level by 2010).

To achieve a stable population by 2045 at a level consistent with the requirements of sustainable economic growth, social development and environmental protection.

 

ROLE OF A NURSE Health policy nurses, health and public policies, helping to create a

healthier society.

Nurses with expertise in this role can be leaders in advocacy, research, analysis, policy development, implementation and evaluation. Analyse health care laws, regulations and public policies, educate the society.

  Community Health Nurses should communicate the people in such a

way to bring changes in health behaviour and life style that promote their health.

 

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