State Board Nursing Practice Standards and/or Government/ Organizational Policies on Health Technology, Care Coordination, and Community Resources Capella 4900 Assessment 3

This coordination of care will promote patient-centered care as all health professionals communicate with each other to provide effective therapy to patients. The ANA policy of care coordination makes healthcare workers aware of implementing it and promotes the effective provision of care treatment. The ANA also advocates the use of community resources for patients and encourages nurses to collaborate with community partners such as community health centers and non-profit organizations such as ADA in case of diabetes.

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This enhances patients’ access to community resources that can improve their knowledge of diabetes and promotes self-management of diabetes. Furthermore, ANA guides nurses to educate patients about community resources that they can take benefit from and alleviate their symptoms and complications through the services provided by particular community organizations and groups (Brunt & Russell, 2022).

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established an enforcement policy that promoted the use of non-invasive remote monitoring devices to enable patient monitoring when COVID-19 emerged. In this enforcement policy, FDA expanded the use of remote monitoring devices and enhanced their availability to reduce the threats from emerging infectious agents like coronavirus (FDA, 2020). This opened up a way for healthcare systems to advance the use of this policy as digital health and remote monitoring is promoted ever since COVID-19 emerged.

Implication for Ethical Professional Practice in Nursing                                                                             

The implementation of ANA standards and HITECH policy of adopting health information technologies has various implications for ethical professional practice in nursing that include respecting patient autonomy and obtaining informed consent, adhering to the principles of privacy and confidentiality of patient’s protected health information, and engaging in collaborative and interprofessional communication to provide coordinated care treatment and using health information technologies in equitably way to reduce health disparities among patients.

Documentation of Practicum Hours

I spent two practicum hours with Michael and his family in discussing these aspects of healthcare technology suited for his condition, implementing care coordination and making the best use of community resources to manage his condition. The details of my experience with Michael and his family in those two hours have been documented in CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form.

Conclusion

Healthcare technologies are necessary to provide effective treatment to patients. In diabetes, continuous glucose monitoring and remote monitoring of medication, and healthy lifestyle adherence are novel health technologies that help manage diabetes effectively. These health information technologies improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety and quality of life. They also prevent future risks associated with diabetes as timely detection of hyperglycemia suggests prompt treatment.

Furthermore, care coordination and community resources like ADA and support groups for diabetes can promote quality of care and reduce diabetes-related complications. The ANA provided nursing practice standards and FDA’s enforcement policy promotes the use of healthcare technology, care coordination, and community resources to treat and manage diabetes efficiently. These health policies and practice standards are helpful in guiding nurses to develop an intervention for patients like Michael using healthcare technology and community resources.

References

Andrès, E., Meyer, L., Zulfiqar, A.-A., Hajjam, M., Talha, S., Bahougne, T., Ervé, S., Hajjam, J., Doucet, J., Jeandidier, N., & Hajjam El Hassani, A. (2019). Telemonitoring in diabetes: Evolution of concepts and technologies, with a focus on results of the more recent studies. Journal of Medicine and Life, 12(3), 203–214. https://doi.org/10.25122/jml-2019-0006 

Brunt, B. A., & Russell, J. (2022, September 20). Nursing professional development (NPD) standards. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534784/