Description
Scenario
Your nurse manager has asked you to partner with the nurse educator that coordinates orientation for new nursing hires. The nurse educator suggests that the following areas (policy, economics, and legal) are not well-represented in nursing orientation materials and that your input would be welcome. You are told that the orientation materials should be brief, as they are part of the notebook that each nurse is given regarding hospital and nursing policies and procedures, as well as tips for best practice.
Instructions
Prepare resource insert sheets for the nursing orientation manual that contains the following:
Part One – Policy Section
- Examines the importance of staying up to date with federal and state health policy.
- Provides resources for staying up to date.
- Illustrates ways nurses can get involved in the policy process.
Part Two – Economics Section
- Identifies key economic principles for nursing.
- Explains the concept of HCACPS Scoring and CMS payment.
- Summarizes ways nurses can be stewards of resources.
- Discusses the revenue sources and budgeting.
Part Three – Legal Section
- Identifies the basic principles of malpractice.
- Assesses best practices for avoiding nursing malpractice.
- Summarizes the State Board of Nursing Disciplinary Process and resources to find Nursing Practice Standards.
- Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the nursing orientation resource insert sheets.
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Nursing Orientation Resources: Policy, Economics and Legal Guideline
for Best Practices
Name:
Course:
Policy Section
Importance of knowing legal requirements
• - Regulations in healthcare guide nursing
practice (Weeks et al., 2017).
• The policies set a plan for desired outcomes
and helps in decision making.
• Helps communicate what is expected in
healthcare delivery (Terry, Carr & Halpin,
2017).
• The roles and responsibilities of a nurse are
spelt out in policies
• Staying updated ensures compliance to new
requirements (Terry, Carr & Halpin,
2017).
• Also helps in reducing issues of malpractice
and application of evidence-based practices
Resources to stay updated
• Visit several websites such as CMS, OSHA
and check any new rules.
• Join a nursing organization such as ANA
which can provide alerts in case of new
rules
• Attend several conferences and seminars as
they give information of new regulations
• Work closely with compliance officers in the
facility to understand regulations (Weeks
et al., 2017).
• Reading nursing newsletters can also help
highlight expected or new changes in laws.
Date:
Nursing Actions in Policy Process
• Understand how policies are made through
synthesis of literature (Weeks et al.,
2017).
• Be involv...
