Contemporary Issues

A complex healthcare system is fragmented and highly sophisticated. In the contemporary world, patients see several specialists track the treatment plans, medical bills, and insurance coverages pose various challenges even to those patients who have filled up the informed consent. In this aspect, health advocacy is integral in easing patient burdens and increasing and improving the system's navigation. Trained personnel, physicians, and other allied health workers can address health inequalities as one of the techniques for promoting more equitable health outcomes in patients. They can advocate for patients by enabling them to have access and benefits that patients are entitled to, such as home visitation programs and child and family benefits, to mention a few. At the same time, physicians can support patients faced with different social problems by getting their history and providing relevant advice. Other suggestions entail availing oneself as a resource that addresses patient issues and questions and referring the clients to services offered in the locality.

Physicians and medical practitioners have a role in managing care transitions. If I were health personnel, I would enhance care transitions by collaborating with others. Notably, care transitions could be a chance for a team to find common objectives that provide patient care. It entails educating patients on care plans, providing clear instructions and identifying resources the patient should focus on whenever they have concerns and issues. Other strategies that I would employ are hospital readmissions and preventive care. Lowering readmissions could be done by providing a patient with holistic and best care. At the same time, care coordination among health providers could help lower the number of readmissions. Preventive care would entail looking at the patterns of readmitted patients and identifying ways of reducing these rates. Also, indulging in patient education, care, and case outreach and allowing nurses to access nurse triage hotlines for any concerns would help enhance prevention care.