Teams of non-hospitalist attending physicians, hospitalists and NPs are important in looking at mental health disparities among ethnic and racial minority communities in the United States. Other stakeholders also contribute to the quality of care accorded to mental health professionals (Hain & Fleck, 2014)
Issues In public health policy, the issues that are of great concern in mental health disparities are increasing the number of mental health professionals for the racial and ethnic minority. Secondly, it is the creating a workforce that is culturally competent to meet the needs of the minority populations expanding at a very high rate in the United States (Halter & Varcarolis, 2013)
S. citizens have been diagnosed with arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders, and hypertension (Reinhard & Hassmiller, n
The Veteran Affairs Department (VA), Kaiser Permanente, and Geisinger Health system are examples of healthcare institutes, which have successfully maximized nursing practice's scope. These institutes put into operation such initiatives that led to practical proof of the positive impact of nurses, who practice at their utmost scope-of-practice levels, on patients as well as the overall care delivery system (Ridge, 2011)
Despite nurses constituting the largest category of healthcare professionals, nursing practice's scope is often limited. Nurses will be able to facilitate cost-efficient improvement in health services; however, for doing so, they should be viewed on par with other health professionals in providing health services (Wilson, Whitaker, & Whitford, 2012)
The ruling however continues to be debated and has been appealed to the state's Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will then have to look into several public health policy issues in making its ruling, including the likely effects of removing the MMA limit on malpractice liability claims and insurance premiums and what that will mean for the affordability of healthcare in the state of Louisiana (Fortier, 2008)
The overall basis for the proposed orientation program has been inspired by Rice's (2016) research showing that an orientation program promotes consistency and helps participants achieve desired goals and clinical outcomes. The substantive content of the proposed University Z orientation program will incorporate Kolb's learning styles model, which is an experiential model based on cognitive psychology and a learning cycle (McLeod, 2013)
. evidence-based quality improvement and healthcare transformation underscores the need for redesigning healthcare that is effective, safe, and efficient" (Stevens, 2013), Moreover, the promise of evidence-based research leads to finding solutions and better ways of managing improvements to healthcare services
Non-completion of the practitioner program means that the student is not adequately prepared to practice as a nurse. This paper looks into the various challenges nursing practitioners undergo, and the ways or strategies to overcome them (Curtis, 2013)
Careful planning should also be done to ensure that new technologies are incorporated in ways that optimizes cost, access and usability. To increase access to nursing education there should be facilitation and testing of innovative educational technologies, such as simulation, virtual worlds and distance learning (Aiken, Cheung, & Olds, 2009)
A number of studies have shown that students who receive financial support are more likely to advance their education. Thus, financial support for Nurse practitioner students is essential in easing their learning (Bellfield, 2010)
For instance, graduate nursing programs taking place in schools of medicine, should be at liberty to devise class sessions that allow them to engage with new medical students. Understanding NP role for these medical students can help to prevent the development of bad physician attitudes regarding NPs later on in the career (Clarin, 2007)
Creating an atmosphere that enables students to learn, guarantees students understand what is demanded of them and gives the students the chance to learn via acting and doing, where they can offer feedback from peers and lectures within a supportive and safe environment. Faculty-student interaction allows engagement of students taking more than one clinical courses to working together in enhancing their outcomes in new clinical learning setting (D'Souza, Venkatesaperumal, Radhakrishnan & Balachandran, 2013)
Nursing Practitioner Challenges Financial Burden One of the main challenges identified by nursing students is lack of sufficient money; many of the students reveal that they have to work part time to make ends meet, apart from studying. For some of them, the work means that they cannot attend class, and thus have to extend their programs (Loftin, Newman, Dumas, Gilden, & Bond, 2012)