Access to Care

Nursing-Access to Care

Introduction

For controlling the spread of infection in clinical settings, nurses should abide by the infection control precautions necessary for this. However, in order for nurses to implement those precautions, they should have particular type of tools, precautions related knowledge, be adequately organized and cooperative (Orn, 2010). For example, unless nurses perform adequate hand hygiene, infection will be transmitted from a patient to another via the hands. Therefore, without those skills and requirements, nurses themselves may hinder the implementation of infection control precautions. This essay will discuss that when nurses do not adequately manage nursing time, have not sufficient knowledge and lack guiding nursing leadership, they themselves may become a barrier to effective nursing control precautions (Shortliffe, 2005).

Thesis Statement

This research paper focuses on the acute settings in the nursing profession and access to care.

Research Aims and Objectives

The main aim of this research paper is to find the access to care in nursing profession and the objectives of the study revolves around finding the affects of nursing in access to care and the way through which public can get access to care.

Research Questions

How do nurses affect access to care?

How does access to care affect nursing profession?

What can nurses do to ensure that the general public gets access to care (advocacy), policy changes etc?

Discussion

The access to healthcare is one of the serious concerns that the world is facing with. Due to the increased costs, it is not possible for every person to get an access the healthcare. People are finding it hard to find access to the care. They are the ones who are finding it hard to access the healthcare and this is the reason that they will not be able to get the proper and the right treatment (Macdonald, 2010). People who are working in this sector need to realize that not everyone is having access to the healthcare. While ensuring good quality service, they will have to realize that the prices are reduced so that every person is able to get himself treated and the treatment is of good quality (Dalton & Lindley, 1999).

Issues in Access to Healthcare

The primary economic barrier to access to health care in many countries - most clearly in the United States is the deficiency health insurance coverage. Almost 50 million citizens Americans (about 18% of the non-elderly population) lack, to some extent of insurance coverage for health. The Inadequate coverage includes the lack of coverage to the impossibility coverage, inadequate coverage or coverage only occasional. In many other countries the primary barriers to health and health care are poverty and limited government resources (Ruder, 2010). The justice issues are different in different parts of the world.Beauchamp and Childress point out that awareness of this inequality in the access social consensus did emerge in the United States about the need for national health policies that take into account the distribution and rationing of goods and services shared by society and that can promote more equal conditions for all citizens are able ...