Analysis of Organizational Policies and Practices in Healthcare

This report analyzes the organizational policies and practices within healthcare institutions, focusing on the challenges faced in providing quality patient care. It highlights the ethical dilemmas arising from limited resources, the impact of high workloads on healthcare professionals, and the need to balance patient needs with resource constraints. The report discusses issues such as inadequate care for chronic illness, the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the slow adoption of technology and information systems. It emphasizes how these factors contribute to errors, inefficiencies, and dissatisfaction among patients and healthcare staff. The report concludes that improved awareness of technology and better implementation of policies are essential to enhance the quality of services and improve patient outcomes.

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Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Health Issues
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Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Health Issues
Healthcare facilities often encounter ethical problems while trying to satisfy the unlimited
healthcare needs daily with limited available resources. The workforce of nurses and physicians
is the central limited human resource in a healthcare institution. The increased workload in the
health care institutions causes the majority of hospitals to experience job dissatisfactions due to
the increased rates of job turnovers and high erosion of the working morale. Health care
institutes have highly prioritized needs that have to be satisfied on time to avoid lagging and
wastage of resources. The prioritized needs include; administering appropriate and adequate
health services to patients, reducing the cost of expenditure, and refining the quality of the care
they provide to patients (Berlinger et al., 2020).
Deprived accommodation of patients' requirements is one of the stressors that compete
for satisfaction in health institutes. The elderly patients suffering from chronic illness receive
inadequate care due to a lack of the medical programs that provide a complete match of the
services required. Patients with heart problems, diabetes, and other significant chronic conditions
need active treatment to be continuous across all settings (Berlinger et al., 2020). Therefore,
physicians and nurses have to collaborate with the limited resources to create a cooperative care
strategy that aligns with the set goals and the implemented goals. The healthcare workers
working under such conditions have to be active associates of the interdisciplinary committees
that provide fundamental care to patients.
The other prioritized stressor in the health care institutes is the slow adoption of technical
information. Although information technology serves as significant automation of the medical,
administrative, and financial transactions in improving the quality and enhancing patient’s
confidence in the health systems, most medical information is still stored in poorly prearranged

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illegible paper archives unreliable (Bila-Tiunova et al., 2019). Very few patients have access to
the mails of caregivers and carry out most of the transactions manually. In health centers, most
errors occur because few information systems process and go through the vast amounts of
medical records that stream over the network.
In conclusion, the health care institution's discussed challenges suggest that poor
awareness of the technology has led to poor quality services to patients, unwanted errors, and
displeasure among patients and health specialists.

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