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Healthcare is an ever-changing business that is constantly adapting new research and evidence-based practice to better suit the needs of the patients as well as staff. There are many competing needs and limited resources associated with healthcare that can help shape the development of a healthcare policy. A large competing need of healthcare is the cost of healthcare services and the access to healthcare, following the start and continuing of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healthcare policy development is largely shaped by the field of nursing. Nurses are the front-line workers in the field of healthcare and can stand as nurse leaders, giving new ideas and ways to do things more efficiently and effectively (Thomas, Seifert, & Joyner, 2016). Innovative ideas are to be used to improve the quality of care being delivered to patients as well as being able to utilize advancing health technologies and developing healthcare polices to provide evidence-based patient-centered care (Thomas, Seifert, & Joyner, 2016).

The national healthcare stressor I am choosing to identify for this discussion post is technology disruption related to telemedicine. Technology disruption related to telemedicine has multiple challenges and competing needs that stand in the way of delivering healthcare services. Some of these competing needs related to telemedicine include lack of education to staff members, lack of patient’s technical skills while using telemedicine, privacy concerns for protected medical information, the expensive cost of telemedicine services as well as the difficulty with insurance reimbursement for services (Lustig, 2012). Lack of education for the staff as well as lack of technical skills (such as lack of broadband internet services) to set up telemedicine is a huge barrier that first must be addressed in order to utilize telemedicine to its full potential.

Nursing burnout is another huge competing factor that can impact the development of health policy (Mudallal et al., 2017). In my field of work, we are feeling the effects of the ongoing health pandemic related to burnout and it affects patient-care in a negative way (Mudallal et al., 2017). The shortage of nurses affects the development of health care policy as well as the amount of effort and concern that nurses have for the desired subject. However, on the other hand, nurse burnout is a major reason that I want to get involved in health policy as a nurse; I feel that due to the overwhelming demands that have been placed on the shoulders of nurses since the pandemic, it has made me want to be involved more in my organization’s healthcare policy development, in order to attempt to make things better for the staff. Having a policy developed about how to use telemedicine with the regulations for reimbursement and education for the staff who are using this technology included will help to address competing needs that arise with the use of telemedicine.

Potential next steps for healthcare workers and policy makers are the involvement across federal and private programs (Mudallal et al., 2017). Areas lacking in broadband connectivity need further assessment and development in order to adequately utilize telemedicine (Mudallal et al., 2017).

References

Lustig, T. A. (2012). The role of telehealth in an evolving health care environment: workshop summary. NCBI. National Academies Press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207146/.

Mudallal, R. H., Othman, W. M., & Al Hassan, N. F. (2017). Nurses’ Burnout: The Influence of Leader Empowering Behaviors, Work Conditions, and Demographic Traits. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 54, 004695801772494. https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958017724944

Thomas, T. W., Seifert, P. C., & Joyner, J. C. (2016). Registered Nurses Leading Innovative Changes. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 21(3). https://doi.org/10.3912/OJIN.Vol21No03Man03