Nursing Editorial: Improving Safety in Australian Healthcare

This nursing editorial delves into the Australian healthcare system's pursuit of a safer and higher quality environment for patients. It highlights the importance of understanding error causes to minimize them, the role of researchers and policymakers in improving healthcare processes, and the financial aspects of patient safety. The editorial also addresses challenges such as nursing shortages, high turnover rates, and the impact of organizational climate and culture on patient care. Furthermore, it emphasizes the need for leadership and communication to foster a positive and safe working environment for healthcare professionals. The editorial concludes by suggesting strategies to promote readership, such as using an editorial calendar and the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and HOW method, to ensure content reaches a wider audience.

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Nursing Editorial
It is no doubt that the health care system has undergone tremendous changes in the last
couple of decades now. Apparently, it would be unfair to say that the development of the
healthcare sector has certainly reached its climax. There have been various urges to improve
patient care delivery, particularly by the Australian health care system, which has been received
in high regards. Noteworthy, individuals have had varied opinions on how patient care is
supposed to be delivered by healthcare workers in the contemporary healthcare system. This has
seen many governments implement strategies such as the universal care (e.g. Medicare in
Australia) to make sure that patients are attended to in the shortest time possible while having
access to quality healthcare services. In this light, there has been a push by the Australian health
care services to create a safe and high-quality healthcare environment for all the Australian
people. This paper intends to discuss in detail the creation of a safer and high-quality health care
environment by the Australian care system as discussed in the Australian Journal of Primary
Health by the Csiro publishing (Pierson, 2012). The chosen journal clearly conforms to the
structure and format of editorial as presented in this work. In relation to the quality of health
administered in Australia, this paper will give insight into the primary care in the nursing
profession. The main focus will be the primary care by nurses towards achieving quality health
care in Australia in the contemporary society.
No doubt that ensuring the creation of a safer environment for patients is a true reflection
of the compassion and vigilance that a healthcare system can illustrate to its clients. Apparently,
this is an important virtue especially for the competency of a certain health care. One of the main
ways of learning the level of safety that a particular patient requires is through observing the
precise cause of errors (Acuna & Penner, 2017). In this light, the knowledge acquired can then

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be applied to come up with a system where errors can be minimized in the line of service
delivery to the patients. As a result of this, there has been a great effort by the Australian
researchers, policymakers as well as the health care providers to intensify their willingness to
acknowledge and, therefore, make some changes regarding the organizational conditions and
processes of healthcare provision in relation to the overall patient care. To increase the level of
services provided in Australian hospitals, policymakers have designed a way of reducing the
hospital expenditures. In this way, more funds can be directed towards medical research that
would improve the quality of health of a customer. To make this happen federal and state
government have a funding responsibility towards a better health care system.
In the contemporary society, health care is seen as one of the most developing and
growing sectors of Australian economy while nursing remains one of the largest occupations in
the healthcare industry. In essence, the Australian healthcare has provided about one million jobs
and is projected to have the largest growth in recent times (Alberts, 2013).
Recent reports by the International Council of Nursing as well as the Australian Institute of
Medicine, suggest that the main reason for the ever-increasing shortages of nurses has a lot to do
with the working environment. In this regards, when the nursing environment is improved there
is a high likelihood of more nursing students being attracted to the profession (Types of Peer
Review, 2018). Additionally, this will ensure that the current practitioners are engaged in the
overall development of innovative procedures of care delivery. Essentially, this will assist in
retaining and nurturing the upcoming generation(s) of nurses. Noteworthy, improving the
working and environmental conditions will as well improve the overall quality and safety of the
Australian model of patient care (Alberts, 2013).

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Primarily, another factor that has been of a great hindrance to improving the health care
services has been the increase in turnovers in various facilities. In Australian hospitals, there has
been the tendency of increase in nursing turnover ranging from 10% to 25% every year (Birks et
al., 2014) This has been a great issue of concern in the recent times given the fact that the annual
turnover for other professionals in the care system has been estimated to be just around 2.1%. It
is therefore evident that these percentages estimate hugely rely on the reports by the nurse
managers experiencing an apparent decline in the level of productivity. Nonetheless, there are
other avoidable organizational monetary as well as the human cost that is associated with the
higher turnovers of employees. Moreover, there have been reports by the Australian analysts
suggesting that most of the low end of employee’s turnovers have been responsible for at least 5
percent of the operational budget every year. In this sense, it is therefore important to understand
the aspect of a firm that facilitates a more stable workforce, especially in the healthcare industry
(Alberts, 2013)
Apart from the apparent harm to a particular patient, a rather avoidable adverse events
regarding care system and related to the overall safety of a patient can have major financial
concerns for the care providers, patients, insurer as well as the families related to the patient. in
essence, with the increasing debate regarding the pay-for-performance as well as the mandatory
reports relating to the certain adversative safety of a patient in an event, some provider always
tend to increase finance as well as the other imperative incentives in the wake of improving the
safety of a patient. It is, therefore, no doubt important to understand the finer details that tend to
improve the safety of a patient. Having knowledge of the imperative challenges facing health
care system particularly in Australia is a big step towards the provision of a better health care
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Various literature journals regarding health care issues have been referring the aspect of
organizational climate as well as culture to the safety climatic conditions to the patient and
nurses. In this regards, culture has been taken to refer to the beliefs, virtues, as well as the norms
that are shared by the community of a firm within that particular organization. Many people see
organizational culture to be a thing that keeps on evolving over time and therefore it remains a
hard thing to change (Birks et al., 214). Those members that are known to be strong the various
perceptions of a firm such as the decision making, leadership as well as the working norms are
referred to as the organizational climate (Birks et al., 214). It is therefore evident that a firm’s
climate is referred to as the movable atmosphere that sets out all perception regarding work and
the practice condition. Many of these perceptions can be largely influenced by managers and the
entire leadership of a certain healthcare facility. Therefore safety is the main yardstick to the
employee’s perception as well as attitude towards a safer environment to the patient. However,
this concept is in many occasion taken lightly especially by the healthcare practitioners in the
medical industry, therefore, patients are left with poor health care and sometimes unattended to
(Birks et al., 214).
Various strategies have been designed to make sure that patients are given the best
environment to allow them to recover from their illness. Notably, the Australian healthcare
industry has been at the forefront ensuring that patients are kept in an environment where they
can best interact with nurses and receives quality care. In this light, occupational health has been
attributing for safe climatic conditions in hospitals (Carpenter, Cone, & Sarli, 2014). These
practices have been tipped to include leadership from the senior ranks who advocate for safety
programs to its patients. Most people correlate a positive environment to minimize events where
people are exposed to injuries during their daily activities. In the concept of a patient safety, the

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environment has been heavily linked to a positive working environment, overall support from the
managers, good communication, and the increased safety event promotion.
Over years, nursing sectors have been facing challenges and complaints regarding the
level of patient safety, particularly in Australia. To fill this gap there has been various
suggestions on the concentration of the type of services delivery to the patient with an aim of
making sure that all the patients are well satisfied. While some goals towards the realization of a
safe environment have not yet been achieved, there is hope that patient care will improve
considering the fact that the information technology and healthcare system has been interwoven
Strategies for Promoting Readership of Editorial
While it is true that people have their own way of planning on what they intend to do, it is
evident that a successful editorial readership requires an ultimate plan that will make some stope
and go through your content. In essence, to promote the readership of an editorial, one can use an
editorial calendar where one is allowed to plan various type of content together and make sure
that there is frequent posting. This calendar always reminds one of the set days for posting and
therefore a page will always remain active for readers to get access to new content. This editorial
calendars as well act as the roadmap.
Another readership for an editorial strategy that has been admired by many people for
quite a while is the use of WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and HOW method. In this light, WHO is
used to define the target audience that the content is targeting. Knowing your audience will make
you aware of the type of words to use on a content putting some reservation depending on the
audience type (Alberts, 2013). This will promote readership as people are enabled to choose the
type of editorials they want based on the topic. WHY in this case is used to direct a planner on

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the type of content are going to be featured in a particular task. Moreover, WHAT allows an
individual to outline what one is going to formulate. This attribute is important especially were
the readers wanted to know the subject of the readings. WHERE allows a planner to set aside a
platform that will make sure his or her content receives a large traffic (Ali & Watson, 2016). One
has to post the readings of editorial to the place where one ought to get access to a bigger crowd
to read the content. In a nutshell, the last component is the HOW technique. Essentially, it allows
one to establish if the editorial is successful or not.
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