PLEASE KINDLY RESPOND TO SHANNON’S POST BELOW. PLEASE NOTE THAT RESPONSE TO PEER’S POST MUST BE SUBSTANTIVE IN NATURE. SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSES POSE NEW IDEAS, ASK DISCUSSIONS AND ADD TO THE DISCUSSION TOPIC IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. THANK YOU.
SHANNON’S POST: The four spheres of political action in nursing are government, workplace, interest groups and community. Government is involved in many aspects of our lives. In healthcare and in particular nursing, government addresses the rules and regulations overseeing nursing practice. It can be at the local, state or federal level. The workplace can be many different settings. Nurses work in many different areas from hospitals to schools to insurance companies. The workplace can have influence over issues that affect patient care and staffing. Interest groups are also professional organizations that can shape a nursing practice. As an Ambulatory / PACU nurse we follow guidelines written by our professional organization ASPAN. The last sphere is community which is a group of people. In nursing a community can be the patient population that we take care of or the group of nurses we work with. All these spheres are interconnected by health.
These four spheres are interconnected and that is more evident today with the current pandemic. When we started opening the hospital back up to elective surgeries, we knew it was going to be different. Our patients are coming in for surgery alone without their caregivers allowed to accompany them. We were following guidelines given to us from the NYS Department of Health as well as the governor about visitation. Families are important especially to our surgical patients because so much information is given to them about postop care. With the influence of anesthesia our patients do not always retain the information. As nurses we needed to come up with different ways to communicate with our patients families throughout the day. We listened to our patients and we looked at different options. We decided to use a texting system throughout the day in addition to calling the families to discuss discharge. Patients and their families are not happy that they cannot be with them but our commitment to communicate with them has made it easier. We knew we needed to abide by the hospital visitation policy but also knew we needed to adapt and do what was within our power to make our patients and their families experience the best it could be. Nurses ground-level practice expertise is critical in creating policies that will succeed through implementation, enhance patient care, and improve population outcomes.(Waddell et al., 2016)
References
Waddell, A., DeLong, A., & Brostoff, M. (2016). A hospital-based interdisciplinary model for increasing nurses’ engagement in legislative advocacy (K. Audette, Ed.). Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, 17(1), 1523.
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