Exam (elaborations) NR 506 Week 2 TD

Identify your selected healthcare policy priority and discuss the rationale for your selection. Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy issue and the rationale for selecting this model. For my policy priority I decided on patient safety and how poor staffing and nurse burnout affect it. Patient safety should be the number one priority and concern of all medical facilities and professionals. Every facility will have policies in regards to patient safety however, their nurse to staff ratio and work environments to prevent burnout are insufficient. There are also those policies related to patient safety that are not in conjuncture with reality, such as who qualifies for a 1:1 sitter. At my current hospital, a very large hospital system that spans over Central Florida, they just had budget cuts and laid off a rather large number of patient care techs and will no longer allow nurses to get overtime, overtime which was always available only because nurses were needed for the amount of patients we have. Now, if a patient needs a 1:1