Long ago, nurses are known to wear white uniforms and stiff caps. Patients stays in the hospital for so many days to recover from surgery. Nurses only received a basic nursing education, and task based oriented. Today nursing has changed from wearing white uniform and cap to scrubs and non-cap wearing. They get good education at colleges and some universities, focusing on coordination of care, critical thinking, and clinical skills. As a result of healthcare reform, health care system focus is shifting toward high quality care, improve patient outcome, and medical cost reduction. The United States government is hoping to achieve these by creating accountable care organizations, offering grant to help with creation of innovative models to improve healthcare, and incentive based program which will help in testing the effectiveness of many models used in healthcare delivery (Smith & Smith, 2012). Nurses will need to assume a greater leadership role, well educated, and well trained in order to be successful in health care reform. The purpose this paper is to summarize the feedback from three colleagues after short discussion about healthcare reform. Feedback Summary Nurse A This nurse is a BSN holder, though she emigrated from other country and got her BSN back there, but her impressions are consistent with what I have researched about health reform. …show more content…
She is aware of health reform and what it demands of nurses. She is a member of American Nurses Association, and always read their articles and news letters about the transformation of healthcare in the United States. She said as the healthcare system is changing rapidly that she is planning to go back to school next year for her Master, that she want to be well prepared to meet the challenges. That nurses have a key role to play in health transformation, and this is the opportunity for nurses to be the change they want to see in the American healthcare industry. She continue that as healthcare is becoming more complex, nurses who are leaders are needed. Nurse B This nurse work as a PRN nurse where I work. She is not fully aware of the health reform and the role nurses has to play, she expressed her concerns about going back to school because her company has mandated every nurse working there to get their BSN or be in the program before 2018. She said that she understands that nurses are the “backbone” of the healthcare system, but not “ready or never” want to go back to school because of her …show more content…
She had impressions that are consistent with what I researched about health reform. She stated that as American health care system is moving toward having health care that is more focus on prevention of disease, and greater number of people being insured, there will be more need for NPs who will provide basic care services. She agreed on the point that health reform has provided many opportunities for new care delivery models which help in reducing health care cost and improve patient outcome such as accountable care organizations, which can meet the aim of health care reform by responding to change in reimbursement and focus on improving quality patient care; Patient-centered medical homes in consistent with health care reform, focus on a coordinated team work, thereby improve care and reducing cost (Jeffers & Astroth, 2013); and Nurse managed health clinics which focus on providing quality care to underserved