Healthcare Policy and Regulations - Healthcare Priority Issue

 


Examine how priority healthcare issues should be examined by nursing.  We will select a key healthcare priority issue and a population. You will find articles that describe nursing interventions designed to improve patient outcomes for your population and healthcare priority issue.  Finally, you will discuss why Quality Improvement is important for patients and then you will describe how nursing values can be used to help improve patient care.  A minimum of five scholarly references will be required.

Access the Healthy People 2030 Objectives. Select ONE objective (priority healthcare issue) and identify a population you would like to explore.  Conduct research to locate information to write about the following:

Specifically, the submission should include the following components:

Health Care Objective 
Identifies a healthcare objective. Describes the healthcare objective, the population it involves, and significance of the healthcare issue by using specific facts and details. Ends with a clearly worded purpose statement. 
Rationale and Importance to Nursing 
Discuss the rationale for choosing the healthcare objective and describe why this issue is important to nursing.  Provides details. 
Nursing Interventions and Outcomes 
Clearly identify two nursing actions or interventions designed to improve care that is measured in patient outcomes.  From two nursing articles, select a total of two (no more or less than two) key nursing interventions that improved patient outcomes and explain how the nursing interventions improved each of the two patient outcomes.  Provide details. 
Quality Improvement Initiative and Patient Care 
Using the interventions from the articles/studies, describe how you would recommend a Quality Initiative (QI) to improve patient care within a healthcare facility (hospital) and explain why this QI would be important to implement for patients. Provides details.  
Nursing, Quality, and Outcomes 
Discuss why it is important for nursing to be involved in quality initiatives and explain how two professional nursing values can help to improve patient care. Provides details 
 

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This examination focuses on the systematic approach nursing must take to address priority healthcare issues, utilizing the Healthy People 2030 framework to bridge the gap between national health goals and bedside clinical interventions.

Health Care Objective

Objective: Reduce the proportion of adults with hypertension whose blood pressure is under control (HBP-05).Population: African American adults aged 18 and older.

Hypertension is a "silent killer" that disproportionately affects the African American community, who often experience higher rates of high blood pressure and develop it earlier in life compared to other demographics. Statistically, nearly 55% of Black adults in the U.S. have hypertension, yet a significant percentage do not have their condition under control due to socioeconomic barriers, systemic healthcare inequities, and limited access to primary care. The significance of this issue lies in its direct correlation to cardiovascular disease, stroke, and renal failure.

Purpose Statement: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of targeted nursing interventions in managing hypertension among African American adults and to propose a Quality Improvement (QI) initiative based on evidence-based practice to enhance long-term patient outcomes.

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