Question

How do all 5 of these clinical problems with pateint & family engagement in healthcare impact nursing practice? Be specific about how these clinical problems would impact nursing practice.

1. Healthcare system underutilizing family & patient engagement

2. Wide-ranging hospital practices & their organizational priorities that impede best evidenced-based practices for patient & family engagement

3. Lack of understanding for diverse cultural & spiritual beliefs

4. Healthcare professional’s use of complicated & technical terms when engaging patients & their families

5. Language barriers impacting patient care experience & can lead to misunderstandings & missed critical patient instruction

Answer 1

Answer: The healthcare system underutilizing family and patient engagement could be used to get proper feedback. The patient and family are being provided Patient centered care. So, they can be involved in the improvement of the nursing practice.

The hospitals supporting evidence based practice for patient and family engagement as it enable nurses to increase their efficiency, critical thinking skills as well as improved care provided to the patients. It make their practice easy.

Due to the lack of understanding for diverse cultural and spiritual beliefs causes problems for the nurses. It is important to provide cultural competence environment to the patients. So that nurse can easily interacy with the patients. Hence lack of this causes delayed treatment and care.

The use of complicated terms by the healthcare professionals cause low understanding among patient and their families. Nurse need to explain them. This also increase workload on the nurse.

Due to the language problems, there could be problem in delivering quality of care to the patients. So, this causes increased workload on the nurses. The nurse need to concentrate, provide counselling and teaching care plan to the patients. Hence this becomes hurdle in delivery of care.