Nursing in Contemporary Healthcare

Running Head: NURSING IN CONTEMPORARY HEALTHCARE
NURSING IN CONTEMPORARY HEALTHCARE
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Contemporary healthcare is characterized by two important aspects which include
translational medicine and community health. Translational health has find a place in health
care as it contributes through biomedical research and the research findings that can be put
into practice. On the other hand, community health services demands better health of all
populations via both the contextual causes and the interventions of the environment. Thus,
there is a greater need for merging the healthcare research from bench to bedside (Waldman
& Terzic, 2010). Nursing is that branch of healthcare that deals with patient handling and
application of clinical reasoning at times of emergency. Nursing skill mix is a mixture of
skills and activities that will be required for taking care of patients and providing nursing
satisfaction. Studies have shown that nursing skill mix is related to mortality, hospital ratings
by patients, adverse patient outcomes reported by nurses as well as job dissatisfaction of
nurses. The process of ensuring good patient outcomes is greatly challenging due to
economic reasons as well as health system reforms (Aiken et al.,2017). Hence, it is of utmost
importance that nurses include contemporary healthcare strategies in their skill mix to
provide complete patient satisfaction as well as to have a desired outcomes.
Studies has shown that hospitals should be able to complement the skilled nurses to
reduce costs without affecting the patient outcome (Aiken et al.,2017). This can be easily
achieved by evidence-based treatment by the nurses that identifies clinical questions and then
address these for the effective delivery of healthcare that is easily feasible, effective as well
as respects ethical practices of certain communities (Pearson, Jordan & Munn,2011). This
essay is going to discuss about the mixing of nursing skills in contemporary healthcare. It
also highlights the difficulties that are being faced by the nurses in order to achieve
contemporary healthcare. The essay also compares and contrasts the number of experienced

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and skilled registered nurses with that of other healthcare professionals. Then the impact of
AIN or Assistants in Nursing on skill mix. The affect of skill mix on nurses as well as the
possible outcomes from the patients while providing healthcare following skill mix are also
discussed in the following sections of the essay.
Discussion
The use of nurses to deliver quality care comes under a primary care practice. The
mixing of skills and staff vary in different institutes as certain countries show very low
number of nurses to that of the population count while on the other hand certain countries
employ more physicians than nurses (Buchan & Aiken, 2010). The healthcare professionals
across the globe have been exploring a lot of ways to skill the staff by mixing adequate
number of different healthcare workers (Dubois & Singh, 2009). Studies have shown that
nursing skill mix includes a range of methods and procedures that is required to optimize the
healthcare sector. It also takes into account the number of personnel or skilled nurses required
to provide quality care. There should be improvement in the skills and also the effective use
of the skills in taking care of the patients. The use of skilled workers by an organization also
needs well defined management of human resources and organizational conditions (Dubbois
& Singh, 2009). The ability of the healthcare institutions to provide effective, high-quality,
patient centric and safe services depend on the skilled professionals. This is also affected by
the shortfall of physicians, nurses, skilled workers and allied professionals. There is shortage
of primary care physicians across the globe. Then the high requirement for the services has
provided the catalyst for the giving team driven primary care. The skill mix in preliminary
care include education, training, tasks along with remuneration of the professionals. Nurses
are one of the important non-physician health professionals who work along the doctors.
There are clear roles of each members in the primary care team for the optimum patient care.
The changes that can be done in primary care skill mix might help to enhance the quality of