Healthcare Education

¶ … Teaching Plan In the field of nursing, there are a variety of challenges which are having an impact on practices. To deal with these issues, various theories have been developed. They are focusing on the way specific approaches can improve quality and enhance professionalism. In the case of treatment and care, these issues are problematic as many nurses are often overworked and can spend only a select amount of time with patients. To address these issues, Watson's Theory of Human Caring was developed.

It is a practice based theory that concentrates on several different areas to include: kindness, transpersonal relationships, spirituality and enhancing the environment. These theories are augmented with my experiences in the field to improve quality and alleviate suffering. This is important, as it showing how Watson's views are critical in providing better attention and support to patients. (Watson, 2011) At the heart of this approach, is a focus on several different variables.

The most notable include: practicing kindness, cultivating spiritual practices, being supportive, teaching, creating a healing environment, assisting with basic needs and allowing for open miracles to occur. To fully understand how these objectives are achieved requires describing the problem and applying concepts from this theory. Together, these elements will illustrate how these insights can be utilized inside a real world healthcare setting. (Watson, 2011) Epidemiological Rationale for the Topic The problem is associated with issues inside a practice setting.

In this situation, nurses are often overworked and forced to solve a number of different administrative tasks during their shift. This is troubling, as they do not have the resources or support to be able to improve care and quality. The result is that errors are increasing and several patients have died because of these issues. If some type of drastic action is not taken, there is a realistic possibility the hospital will lose patients and face increasing malpractice litigation.

(Arboleda, 2009) This is in spite of the fact that they have an incident investigation system. These procedures are designed to isolate the problem and determine effective ways to troubleshooting key challenges. However, this has been proven to be ineffective, as the culture and attitudes of the staff are making them ineffective. (Arboleda, 2009) A good example of this can be seen with insights from Arboleda (2009) who said, "Different industry sectors have developed numerous tools for risk management, from simple risk assessments to more complex tools like FEMA's incident investigation methodologies.

Although the healthcare sector deals with a highly risky environment, little has been done if compared to other Industry sectors and service providers with the same level of inherent risk. To overcome these deficiencies, some methodologies have been created to fill the existing gaps in healthcare facilities, being one of these the incident investigation system.

Although this methodology is very effective as one of the risk management tools, to obtain better results it requires the implementation of an adequate safety culture before its development." (Arboleda, 2009) These insights are showing how the culture enables staff members to ignore quality and safety. Moreover, Landrigan (2010) is adding to these insights by surveying the frequency of accidents inside various healthcare facilities. He determined 25.1 of admissions resulted in some kind of error which had an adverse effect on the patient.

(Landrigan, 2010) These insights are showing how patient safety is leading to more issues for hospitals. This is in spite of efforts to prevent these challenges and focus more on reducing the total number of cases. These issues are directly related to nurses who are overworked and fail to understand when these issues are first arising. According Odell (2009), staff members need to pay more attention to these issues and their capacity to respond to deteriorations in the patient's condition.

(Odell, 2009) These insights are showing how the culture inside the facility will lead to more accidents. This is because nurses are often very busy and fail to understand what is happening. These issues are problematic, as they make the underlying situation much worse over the long-term. Once this takes place, is the point quality is.