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The advantages and disadvantages of educating healthcare workers in separate schools of thought for practice standards
The approach of teaching healthcare workers in different schools of thought provides them with an understanding of their roles and responsibilities. As such, they will know specific management techniques that will ensure the provision of care. After this, they will need to collaborate in the healthcare facilities, where they develop communication and listening skills. They will end up appreciating the abilities of other healthcare providers.
A different school of thought for healthcare professionals provides different levels of competencies for healthcare professionals, which is essential in improving healthcare performance. As such, they are useful in the maintenance of safe and clinically competent healthcare practice. The level of standards obtained by healthcare professionals is essential in guiding clinical practice. It is because they provide frameworks useful for the development of proficiency evaluations. There are various kinds of skills obtained by the healthcare professions from these different schools. The skills and knowledge will be applied in the provision of care for patients.
The main challenge with this approach is that there have been conflicts among healthcare professionals from different professions. It is because of the existence of various perspectives between nurses and physicians. The strategy will also mean that there is a varying level of competency and skills acquired among healthcare professionals. It can lead to role disputes, lack of commitment among healthcare professionals, and misunderstandings, which would affect the provision of care for patients.
Maldistribution of physicians
There are two forms of maldistributions affecting physicians-specialty and geography. The first is due to the reason that the physicians who are specializing in primary care are on the decline in the United States (Lango, Handorf & Arjmand, 2017). The geographical one is due to the reason that most physicians like residing in urban/suburban regions. It leaves a significant population from ethnic groups or rural areas to suffer from fewer healthcare workers. The two forms of maldistribution can be prevented by increasing the number of physicians who pass under the dysfunctional system. Also, the need for increasing the pay for physicians in rural areas because of hardship factors may be critical strategies in preventing the problem.
The increased pay for physicians will reduce the burden that people from rural areas have to bear. Also, there is a need for involving people from minority groups to enter into the field of medicine through funding and provision of opportunities. It is because the financial burden has been daunting. Higher pay for the population will require that the federal government provide subsidies (Mongelli, Georgakopoulos & Pato, 2020).
It is also possible to prevent the problem through higher pay for physicians providing primary care, mostly found in rural regions. They have become essential in the provision of healthcare with ongoing healthcare insurance.
The healthcare reforms are also affecting the increasing demand for physicians. The ACA act enacted to ensure an increase in the provision of care services to patients by ensuring accessibility and reduction of costs implies that many patients can now access care. As a result, there has been an increasing demand for healthcare services with the rising population. As such, there is a constant demand for healthcare workers.
The rise of chronic infections is also overburdening healthcare workers. It implies that physicians are made to deal with different kinds of diseases, affecting the ever-growing population. As such, there is a limited supply of physicians to address the chronic infections affecting the community.
Challenge that the new orientation poses for the existing system of medical education training
The process of promotion of health and prevention of infections are programs that are useful in ensuring that there is an improvement of health and quality of life for individuals in the United States. Initiatives to provide health promotion are engaging and empowering people to select healthy behaviors and make informed decisions that will reduce the risk of preventing chronic infections (Hawakins et al., 2015). The prevention of disease provides efforts that can help prevent chronic infections from affecting the health of the population. Wellness has a significant relationship with the promotion of health and prevention of infections. As such, it involves the attitudes and efforts communities make to ensure positive health behaviors and results. As such, they are always useful in addressing the social determinants of health, which may be a risk factor. SDH involves socio-cultural, economic, and political factors that affect the lives of individuals.
The primary challenge is that medicine and medical education remain incompetent in the establishment of health promotion and prevention of infections as an urgent need for populations in the U.S healthcare systems. Besides, there is poor accommodation for patients’ needs, as this is evident with the increasing number of baby boomers. There will be an increase in the number of patients with chronic infections, as there is a growing number of aging individuals. It is estimated that there will be seventy million older adults by 2030 (20% of the population). Presently, there are more than 125million people in the United States with chronic infections. Fifty percent of this number experience multiple diseases. The number is expected to increase due to the increasing number of older adults (Maxwell & Blashki, 2016). The slow adoption of technology has been transforming the healthcare system in the country. It has affected the healthcare system.
It creates the need for healthcare professionals to be engaged in providing information to patients that will be useful in health promotion. The healthcare professionals have to ensure a routine interaction with patients and take the opportunity to provide adequate information to them.
In summary, healthcare professionals learn from a different school of thought, as this is useful in developing required skills, knowledge, and competencies helpful in the provision of care in hospitals. Even though there is an increasing number of physician graduates, the shortage is still experienced because most are based in urban/suburban centers and healthcare reforms. As a result, there is a need to take initiatives to prevent the shortage of physicians.
References
Hawkins, R. E., Welcher, C. M., Holmboe, E. S., Kirk, L. M., Norcini, J. J., Simons, K. B., & Skochelak, S. E. (2015). Implementation of competency‐based medical education: are we addressing the concerns and challenges?. Medical Education, 49(11), 1086-1102.
Lango, M. N., Handorf, E., & Arjmand, E. (2017). The geographic distribution of the otolaryngology workforce in the United States. The Laryngoscope, 127(1), 95-101.
Maxwell, J., & Blashki, G. (2016). Teaching about climate change in medical education: an opportunity. Journal of Public Health Research, 5(1).
Mongelli, F., Georgakopoulos, P., & Pato, M. T. (2020). Challenges and opportunities to meet the mental health needs of underserved and disenfranchised populations in the United States. Focus, 18(1), 16-24.