Redesigning the healthcare system
The growing demand for the need for quality, safe, and patient-centered care in the nursing system has made Florida legislators start developing the nursing profession to help achieve these high-in-demand goals. Several measures have been undertaken to align with the IOM report about US healthcare systems’ future goals. These US healthcare goals were the IOM committee’s recommendation, stating what the nursing systems should do to ensure proper and adequate services to patients in the future. This essay discusses how the Florida coalition works in line with these recommendations. The article will also state whether the Florida coalition action addresses all the IOM recommendations and describes the state’s progress towards meeting the IOM recommendation.
Florida action coalition addresses three of the four IOM recommendations to ensure future reforming of the nursing systems. The coalition aligns with the first recommendation, stating that the nurses should practice the full extent of their education and nursing. It does this through passing the Nurse License Compact and the Advanced Nurse Registered Practitioner prescribing registration that allows nurses to prescribe controlled substances in efforts to achieve the goal of practicing the full extent of their education and preparations (Denker, 2016). Also, the state action coalition aligns itself with the second recommendation, which suggests that nurses need to achieve higher education levels and training by applying improved education systems that ensure seamless education. In making this, Florida action coalition in partnership with the Big Benda Area Health Education Center is working to develop and deliver a comprehensive health worker training program in the area of Big Benda that aims at developing curriculum to prepare nurses and CHWs to meet healthcare needs of an underserved population and address health disparities in the region (Brunell, & Denker, 2016). Moreover, the coalition also works in alignment with recommendations, which states that nurses need to become full partners with physicians and other health professionals to ensure that there is healthcare redesigning in the United States. The coalition action developed state implementation program grant aimed at promoting and developing leadership interest and competency to all nurses (Brunell, & Denker, 2016). However, the coalition has failed to address the recommendation about the requirement of better data collection and improved information infrastructure as a requirement in ensuring policy making and effective workforce.
Based on the website’s analysis, there is good progress in the state of Florida towards reforming the healthcare system that ensures quality, safe and patient-centered services for the future nursing system. The excellent progress results from the Florida action coalition’s committed effort that has been fruitful in making the coalition achieve its goals for the past two decades since it began. Thus, the great efforts to pass the prescribing registration forming a coalition with Big Benda Area Health Education center developing state implementation programs have been essential in making the coalition succeed in its goal of reforming the healthcare system.
In conclusion, the future of redesigning the healthcare system is achievable owing to the great efforts made by the Florida action coalition. Although the coalition has managed to align its work with only three of the four recommendations, the progress is credible, and thus the future looks bright in the nursing system.
References
Denker, A. (2016). How Florida NPs Are Meeting the IOM’s Goals – Elite Learning. Elite Learning. Retrieved 25 August 2020, from https://www.elitecme.com/resource-center/nursing/how-florida-nps-are-meeting-the-ioms-goals/.
Brunell, M., & Denker, A. (2016). Florida Action Coalition: Con-leadership.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu. Retrieved 25 August 2020, from https://con-leadership.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/files/2014/01/MLBrunell-ALDenker_UFL_LeadershipConf_2-4-2016.pdf.