Clinical Healthcare: Strategies for Improved Healthcare Delivery

This report delves into the critical aspects of clinical healthcare, emphasizing the vital role of interprofessional collaboration among healthcare professionals, patients, and their families. It underscores the benefits of teamwork in achieving exceptional patient care, including enhanced pa...Read More

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Clinical Healthcare
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Clinical healthcare
Clinical healthcare is vital and should be prioritized. Healthcare involves patients, family
and a team of trained and skilled healthcare professionals. Exceptional healthcare can be
achieved through organized collaborative approach and members’ teamwork among other
factors. The term paper also entails the benefits of and opportunities brought about by
interprofessional collaboration in healthcare services which may be either to the nurses, patients
and other healthcare professionals (Wenghofer, et al., 2015).
The paper presented also analyses different strategies that can be put to use to improve
healthcare service delivery systems and also the nurse practitioner core competencies that can be
applied to achieve exceptional healthcare and patient satisfaction. To ensure safe and effective
care to patient needs is achieved, teamwork and collaboration among members of the healthcare
system is required, this may involve understanding each other’s scope of practice, area of
specialization and norms of the other disciplines.

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Interproffesional collaboration in healthcare is known to ensure patient satisfaction and
improve on the core competencies like values and ethics, role and responsibilities of
interprofessional practice. This helps develop an interprofessional communication language and
personal bonds for collaborative purposes. Interprofessional collaborations empowers team
members to make recommendations about effective patient care. Interprofessional collaboration
also promotes a patient-centered care, it helps integrate different professions in the healthcare
delivery centers to work together towards providing care that has lasting results (West-Burnham,
Wall, Coleman & Bush, 2018).
To improve healthcare delivery systems, one must start by understanding how the different
compartments of health care operate and how they coordinate. Communication with patients and
their families should be effective at all times. Patients should be given all information regarding
their care and should be considered for any decision about their treatment. Health facilities and
equipment need well trained and self-motivated labor to be able to provide consistent good care.
Setting goals and having an executable plan through communicating targets, plans, achievements
and progress to the team of healthcare staff helps improve their competency and in turn improves
the healthcare delivery systems. Accessibility to both healthcare center and the healthcare
practitioner should be available to those who need them (Wareing, et al., 2017).

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The FNP core competencies includes scientific foundations, leadership, quality, practice
inquiry, technology and information literacy ,policy, ethics, health delivery systems and
independent practice, all should apply to all nurse practitioners. With the inevitable innovation
and technological advancements, core competencies like technology and information literacy
when put in place with regard to policy and leadership can help improve the healthcare delivery
systems and services. The FNP competencies cannot be ignored when there is need for
improving the healthcare services (van den Bergh, Ros & Beijaard, 2015).
Although no single phenomena is unappealing to the field of healthcare and medicine,
accomplishing extensive healthcare is important and takes a well thought plan and a solid plan
since its extremely challenging.
References

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The effect of continuing professional development on public complaints: a case–control
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