Question

How can nurse managers use Massachusetts state profiles to improve quality outcomes or the practice environment? how various healthcare policies, regulations, or laws may have impacted healthcare operations and the information presented in the Massachusetts profiles.

Answer 1

The nurse manager can use Massachusetts state profile to imp rove quality of care in the following way

• To maintain a good standard of care
• to oversee the expense for the program
• Organization goals has to be reached to others in an participative way by health care workers
• to take authority
• to guide the nurses
• plan orient, and initiate newer technologies to be used by the employees

Various health care policies regulations has an impact on healthcare of the patient like

• Everyone who is above 18 years should have an insurance coverage or tax will be levied
• It makes thousands of health care policies decisions every year without the involvement of local government which oversee the hospital's work
• Access to care is impacted due to cost
• Quality of care is impacted due to high price
• Uninsured and underinsured population
• Shortage of health care professionals
• Security issues
• Use of health information technologies is not practiced effeceffectively.