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FIRST POST

Florida Action Coalition is an approach related to health professionals developed to enhance social change and create positive health in the medical or health sector. Florida Action Coalition was designed to provide better health care services to patients by improving healthcare facilities’ improvements. Moreover, the coalition ensured that work ethics were formulated and adhered to by all stakeholders. The Florida Action Coalition mission is to facilitate change in the health care field in terms of the culture practised addressing issues such as diversity, education, practice, and collaborative leadership in the medical scope. Florida Action Coalition was established to serve several functions, which include: An advancement in telecommunication. Consequently, the upgrade would ensure that the health sector’s response team is effective and efficient in attending to patients and handling no delay. Besides, the coalition served as a means of creating and enhancing equality in the health care field. Some instances of inequality were being experienced and reported in the health care field where the stakeholders were not being treated equally. However, the coalition advocated equality in health care.

Also, the coalition aimed at ensuring that appropriate leadership is selected in the medical field in most health institutions to ensure that they are led correctly—the Florida Action Coalition aimed at ensuring that there is balance in the health workforce. Previously, there was an imbalance of force in the various departments in the healthcare facilities as some of the departments were understaffed while others had a large workforce. Nurses are faced with some challenges which hinder them from delivering quality health care services to patients. Long working hours are among the challenges the workers’ experience, making them tired and losing concentration in their work due to lack of rest and enough sleep. Workplace hazards affect the nurses because the nurses may be exposed to contagious diseases such as those caused by viruses that may indeed happen to affect their health conditions. Shortage of staff in the hospitals and other health care facilities (SAU, 2020). In addition, the number of nurses in most of the facilities is inadequate, which would lead to an increase in the nurses’ workload, which may make them overwhelmed or work under pressure, which would lead to poor performance. Nurses are among the primary stakeholders in the medical field and impact the policies (Burke, 2016). Besides, nurses are involved in policy-making by engaging in political knowledge and practices in the medical field. Nurses can vie for various leadership positions in the medical field and become part of the policymakers once they are elected. Nurses can play a role in policy-making by becoming active members of a professional nursing organization. Furthermore, organizations play a significant part in policy-making since they are considered while the policies are being made.

References

Burke, S. A. (2016, February 6). Influence through policy: Nurses have a unique role. Retrieved from Sigma Nursing.

SAU. (2020, April 23). Challenges in Nursing: What Do Nurses Face on a Daily Basis? Retrieved from Spring Arbor University: https://online.arbor.edu

SECOND POST

The importance of interprofessional collaboration cannot be stressed enough, specially, in underserved communities. The advanced practice nurse can reduce health disparities in underserved communities through interprofessional collaboration when designing evidence-based health promotion interventions. Interprofessional collaboration amongst healthcare providers has multiple benefits such as building trust among patients, families, and communities, trust facilitates the sharing of health information and care coordination, greater continuity, and adherence to care, as well as improved patient outcomes (Jadotte et al., 2019, p. 2). Collaborative healthcare teams improve access to and quality of care to underserved communities which is one way to reduce health disparities in the underserved population (Rosenthal et al., 2019, p. 70). Healthcare providers working collaborately can refer patients to one another, for example: an advanced nurse practitioner seeing a woman of childbearing age who has never been seen by an OB/GYN can refer the patient to a collaborative OB/GYN partner so the patient can have an annual pap smear. Another example of health promotion and disease prevention through interprofessional collaboration would be for an advanced practice nurse, working in primary care, who is taking care of a 50-year-old male who has never had a colon screening, can refer the patient to a gastroenterologist who is working in collaboration with the advanced practice nurse in treating the underserved community. Interprofessional healthcare providers who are collaborating can arrange to meet quarterly, or as needed, to address the needs of the communities they serve and together come up with strategies to implement evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of the community to prevent disease and promote health.

References

Jadotte, Y. T., Gayen, S., Chase, S. M., Passannante, M., & Holly, C. (2019). Interprofessional Collaboration and Patient Health Outcomes in Urban Disadvantaged Settings: A Grounded Theory Study. Health, Interprofessional Practice and Education, 3(4), 1185. https://doi.org/10.7710/1185

Rosenthal, B. (2017). Interprofessional collaboration among integrative health and medicine providers in community health settings providing care to the underserved. Advances in Integrative Medicine, 4(3), 130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2018.02.025

THIRD POST

Health and health care disparities refer to the differences in health and health care between groups that exist amongst populations, impacted by social determinants that can negatively impact subsets of the population who have systematically experienced greater socioeconomic obstacles to health It is important that advance practice nurses encourage action and facilitate accountability to reduce disparities using interventions that are effective and scalable. There are many studies the identify promising programs and interventions for reducing the burden of disease or risk factors for a specific health problem. However, to reduce health disparities require national leadership by engaging a variation in stakeholders. Interprofessional collaboration is the foundation needed for health care providers to support patient needs and reduce health disparities. Interprofessional collaborative teams that include nurses, physicians, social workers, pharmacists, and physical and occupational therapists can help healthcare organizations improve patient and family experiences, ensure good outcomes, and reduce costs (Sigmon, 2020, p. 36). Advance practice nurses can design programs through evidence-based health promotion programs such as one through service learning, which is one of the most common educational approaches. It combines community-based services with specific learning objectives and preparation. Partnerships between professions vested in health equity can address the needs of the community while enhancing the student learning experience (Thorton & Persaud, 2018, p.9). Furthermore, advance practice nurses must be prepared with foundational transformational leadership competencies to meet the challenges of leading collaboratively with other professions (Goldsberry, 2018, p. 2). For the healthcare team to create an effective design for health promotion factors such as communication, respect, task prioritization and trust must be considered. Interprofessional requires strong leadership to create collaborative public-private partnerships, risk taking to develop new patient care services that include cultural-competency training, and vision to design evidence-based health promotion interventions or programs

References

Goldsberry J. W. (2018). Advanced practice nurses leading the way: Interprofessional collaboration. Nurse education today, 65, 1–3. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2018.02.024

Sigmon, L. B. (2020). Interprofessional collaboration made easy. American Nurse Today, 15(11), 36–38.

Thornton, M., & Persaud, S. (2018). Preparing Today’s Nurses: Social Determinants of Health and Nursing Education. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(3), 9. https://doi-org.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/10.3…