Question

Balancing costs with patient care is also part of distributive justice. Discuss two ways that the use of SPHM practices affects the ability to achieve this balance.

Answer 1

Answer: The use of SPHM practices affects the ability to achieve balance as safe patient handling and mobility is important. Patients need to be transferred from one place or they require mobilization. This sometimes causes risk, inability of nurse to take proper care. The risk of falling is very common.

The second problem that occurs is the inability of nurses to identify which kind of SPHM the patient requires. This creates error in the functioning.

For better and improved outcomes, the professionals indulge themselves in various methods to provide quality of care such as providing cultural competence environment to the patients, assessing safety procedures etc.