Policy Advocacy Statement Task

Running Head: POLICY ADVOCACY STATEMENT
POLICY ADVOCACY STATEMENT
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POLICY ADVOCACY STATEMENT
Amongst the new graduate nurses who has been joining our health care organisation,
there had been various issues arising with the new nurses. The new environment along with
the peer pressure in addition to lack of conformation with the clinical needs of the patient that
presents itself at a multiple level, poses the most immediate threats to the working and the
day to day practice of new graduate nurses (Elliott et al., 2016). Workplace disruption is a
huge issue that led to the new graduate nurses committing a lot of medication administration
errors in the clinical scenario and the same has been reported from various departments –
general wards, neurology wards, psychiatric wards, intensive care unit, intensive coronary
care unit, paediatric care unit, maternal care unit and the reports has been generated through
audits which is the only system that we have somewhat incorporated in our organisational
and department supervision framework but there are various types of gaps that still exists in
the clinical system of our health care organisation that pertaining to the day to day clinical
practices of the nurses, specially of the new graduate nurses (Samantha Keogh et al., 2017). It
is highly important and also very critical to understand that the medication administration
errors are dangerous and severe, given the adverse drug events that might arise from the
delivery or administration of wrong drug top the patient or the right drug in the wrong time
(Latimer et al., 2017). On further, being the nursing unit manager, it has been found that not
only the number or the rate of the medication administration error is increasing in the
organisation but there are other issues as well. This is the problem that exists with the hand
hygiene problems and again the most prone group was found to be the new graduate nurses
who have just joined the organisation and are in first eight to nine months of their service
(Manias et al., 2019). This medication administration errors events leading to the adverse
drug events and the lack of hand hygiene compliance by the new graduate nurses across
various departments of the organisation lading to more severe and difficult to cure events of

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cross contamination in the patients – as overall decreased the quality of care and the quality
of clinical expertise with delivered to the clients, in form of nursing service. Hospital
acquired infections is on of the most critical adverse health events and it only antagonises the
level of care already being provided to the patient and the recovery that has already being
made in relation to a certain disease (Johnson et al., 2017). It is to be noted that these adverse
drug events and the hospital acquired infections not only decreases the level of patient
satisfaction but also affects the level of ethical considerations being undertaken in relation to
a service delivery to the patient. On further audits, feedback taking and surveying the issues
in order to understand the main reasons that affect the compliance behaviours of the nurses
with the medication administration adherence and with the hand hygiene behaviours and
safety practices – it has been seen that that due to the disruption of the psychological safety
and the due to stress and anxiety related burnout in the new graduate nurses, these non-
compliance with the patient safety and patient centred practice protocols are missing
(Hutton, 2018). It is highly important and also very much critical to understand again that the
negative perception about the patient care in the clinical scenario, lack of knowledge (both
theoretical and practical), lack of critical thinking and clinical reasoning, lack of health
information access in relation to the disease and the health conditions of the patient, lack of
knowledge about the treatments in relationship to the pathophysiology of the disease and it is
highly critical that the health information related access is bettered in the hospital framework
pertaining to the nursing profession.
The Department of Health is convening a panel of experts and stakeholders, including
government officials from the Department of Finance, Executives from major private health
insurance companies, senior clinicians from District Hospitals, and community
representatives in order to bring a health system change with respect to the organisational
transformation. This can be actually bought by the incorporation of more informative