The contemporary health care area is more and more dynamic, and the capability to research libraries is considered top-ranking for nurses. In the face of technology progression, and with the expanding medical knowledge, nurses must have the ability to swiftly move and manipulate huge mass information to be on top of everything. The research competencies of a nurse will be the bedrock upon which they will effectively screen, evaluate and integrate the evidence-based practices into their clinical decision making process. Along with that, it not only contributes to better-quality care given but also helps to achieve a constant training climate and improvement within nursing profession (McCutcheon et al., 2020). Moreover, the ability to conduct library research equips nurses with the much-needed tools for appraising healthcare policies, solutions, and systems, among other interventions such as those directed at containing costs of medical care. Hence, the use of library research facilities in conjunction with their own skill sets allows nurses to approach policy reform on corruption, cost transparency, and value-based healthcare as proactive advocates. Investing in the development of these abilities shift nurses to a pivotal position which is instrumental to the achievement of better healthcare delivery and higher patient outcomes.

Overview of the Problem

The mounting healthcare cost is a global problem that spans across all of healthcare institutions, encompassing all stakeholders, including patients, providers, and policymakers. As being a nurse, I have seen with my own eyes the pressure created by the finances allocated for health bill, which sometimes takes up to a great extent and defeats the purpose of being able to get to the goods or services that meet the health care needs. According to Commonwealth Fund report (2023) the expenses of health care in the United States go far exceeding economic growth moving on to the amount of $4.5 trillion in 2022. Undoubtedly, these startling figures emphasize the need for taking measures to break this additional hurdle people have to go through to seek care. The scenario of making painful choices between crucial medical requirement and excessive medical bills has been in front of me within medical office settings. Such financial strain, however, the most afflicts those who are vulnerable subjects of instantiation, expanding healthcare inequalities. Accordingly, restrictive expenses of care impoverish healthcare organizations becoming a danger to the investment in high quality of medical facilities and staffing. Over the years, I found out that the strategy of lifting up the innovatory approaches and the policy changes may be the solution for this problem which will allow patients to pay less for quality services that will stimulate the growth of the healthcare system for the long run. Through pursuit of cost transparency, value-based care models, and collaborative programs nurses can become a key driver of the process of equal health care availability for each and every person in the presence of the community.

Finding Articles in Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals

My research endeavour to study the economic burden imposed by the high price of medical care involved a well-structured methodology to obtain authentic and reliable data. Utilizing my medical experience, I initiated the literature review part, search engines like PubMed and CINAHL, and Google Scholar reputable databases. Health costs burdening people are the exact keywords which I use to lead the veer of the topic. This in combination of healthcare costs, healthcare affordability, and healthcare costs causing the financial burden on patients will widen the scope of the issue in search for a solution. At the beginning I was inclined into the irrelevant papers and so I started to make changes to my search criteria by adding more terms such as “cost-saving strategies,” “financing of healthcare,” and “health policy” to help narrow the focus to the main elements of the problem. Furthermore, I minimized my search field by applying filters to sort only peer-reviewed and scholarly articles because of their high competence in securing the legitimacy and reliability of the sources. When assessing the articles, I regarded the papers that were able to conduct a deep examination of the factors fueling healthcare costs and their consequences on patient affordability and outcome as the most significant papers; these papers suggested evidence-based methods of making health care more affordable. Taking into consideration the particular problems that physicians experience and acknowledging that nursing is the most important, I researched the articles that state the insights of the nursing department first. Looking into this meticulously, I tried to get hold of a variety of viewpoints that could inf