Hospital systems face pressing issues ranging from clinical variations, medical errors, delays in healthcare services to hospital-acquired infections. As a result, various clinical solutions are implemented to improve healthcare. First, specialist-led medical therapy decreases the total cost of healthcare.
For instance, the healthcare system involves pharmacists in performing MTM to Medicaid clients covered by a shared-risk contract. Secondly, Optimizing care improves early detection and outcomes. Early disease diagnosis improves patient healthcare services and reduces patient mortality (Niñerola et al., 2020).
Additionally, boosting clinical preparedness and change competencies reduces clinical variation by integrating information from promptness assessment, opportunity assessment, and expert resources to create a prioritization and performance approach to improve outcomes. Financial solutions for hospital improvement included activity-based costing (ABC). ABC provides detailed, actionable data on the management of hospital costs. Moreover, integrating payment processing into medical workflows allows patients to pay at the service point using credit cards, mobile phones, or acceptable payment plans.
The success of clinical and financial changes depends on the guiding medical policies. Nurses play a vital role in policy development by identifying current medical issues, forwarding their suggestions, enforcing the addressed policies, and evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness in solving the problems identified. The virtual associate meeting discussed impacts of past government decisions on the current medical services and how healthcare can be improved in light of the recent Corona Virus pandemic (“Virtual associates meeting,” 20th April 2020). It is also essential to address the challenges nurses face in delivering quality healthcare services and patients during this period due to a lack of actionable guiding policies on COVID-19. For instance, there is lack of policies to address issues on shortage of experienced NP, shortage of PPEs, and lack of insurance coverage. To assist nurses during this pandemic, it is essential to revise their healthcare policies to ensure they are adequately protected and covered. Also, the government should provide advanced nurse education on COVID-19 response.