Unregulated Healthcare Provider: Impact on Healthcare Centers

Running head: UNREGULATED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
UNREGULATED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
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UNREGULATED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
The term unregulated healthcare worker may be defined as the healthcare professionals
who perform a variety of tasks, some of which are done by regulated healthcare professionals
traditionally. These individuals are mainly appointed to meet the shortage of nurses and they are
not as efficient as registered nurses are. They do not have standard education. They only reduce
the burden of registered nurses by doing simpler tasks that does not require expert nursing skills.
Some of the other titles that are also given to them are generic workers, nurse aides, personal
support worker and many others (Endacott et al., 2018). This assignment will mainly show the
impact of the role in the healthcare centers. It will also show positive and negative aspects of
making all healthcare professional regulatory.
Unregulated healthcare providers have both positive and negative impacts on the
healthcare. They have low salaries and therefore the organizations can utilize the financial
resources in buying newer technological resources, equipments and many others. As no specific
training sessions are allotted to them, the organizations also do not have to spend money often
their training. Therefore huge amount of financial resources are saved that helps the organization
in buying new technologies and maintenance of the healthcare systems (Rigg et al., 2017).
Secondly, when the nurse to patient ration becomes low, the quality of care provided to patient
may also become affected. The unregulated care workers helps nurses by haring their work
burden by doing the easier tasks that they can manage effectively. This helps to provide best
quality patient centered care by the nurses. However, there are certain negative impacts that are
also associated with the role of unregulated healthcare workers. Such workers usually do not
undertake any standard education or practice and therefore the activities conducted by them may
not be evidence based and may impose risks of harm for the patient. Moreover, nurses have
stated that they can never delegate any task to them with full confidence, as they cannot be sure