The Nurse's Role in Supporting the Organization's Strategic Agenda

The Nurse's Role in Supporting an Organization's Strategic Agenda
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Introduction
Changes in the acute healthcare sector and nursing are not a factor to ignore. Change is relative in healthcare on a day to day basis with the healthcare managers and providers dealing with new payment systems, a new technology, and new evidence-based practices. Since nursing practitioners are considered to be an integral part of any healthcare institution, they are susceptible to face transformations in the systems (Carney, 2009).
Nursing professionals are therefore in the middle of a crisis attempting to provide quality patient care even while considering their credibility in their careers. This paper, therefore, seeks to interview a quality manager of Kindred Healthcare institution with the aim of determining the views of a manager regarding the impact of direct care nursing role within an organization.
Background
A direct nursing care role inclines around the provision of nursing care to patients intended to achieve some specific health care objectives and goals geared towards achieving a healthcare outcome. Indirect nursing care, the subject of change is not a mystery. However, the opportunities for development in this sector require changes in the delivery of healthcare services (Carney, 2009). An acute care or long-term care agency remains an integral part of a medical institution. Therefore, it is imperative for the nurses providing care in this sector to present themselves in a manner that depicts the mission, values and culture of an institution.
The role of the registered nurses in these institutions remains a subject of discussion with a general perception that there are no active clinical roles of the registered nurses in health facilities, a factor that reflects their underutilization (Carney, 2009). In addition to this, the registered nurses being the most highly paid practitioners are subject to underutilization in the hospitals. It is out of this that an interview will be carried to address the challenges in the provision of quality, safe and cost effective services to patients according to the initiatives in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Relevant Questions Pertinent to the Interview
The key to this section is to develop some of the questions that will be used during the section of the interview;
1. What are some of the challenges that affect the direct nursing care in the organization?
2. How as the direct care nursing approach impacted the institution?
3. What are some of the challenges that hinder the implementation of the direct nursing care approach in the organization?
Interview
This interview was healed within the institution with the quality manager who provided the details seeking my consent not to disclose his identity. For the goals of this, I will name the interviewer as Mr. X
Me; Mr.; X, without taking much of your time, could you kindly explain to me some of the challenges that affect your...