Heart Failure Clinic Resourcing Plan

Health care delivery is a complex process and system that includes multiple delivery sites such as hospitals, ambulatory-care centers, private-provider offices, community-health facilities, home-care agencies, and extended-care facilities. Managed care is a method used to reimburse or pay for health care service. It includes more than just payment; it also controls the delivery services. Health care reform has been undertaken for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are access and health disparities issues. Nursing within an organization is a critical component of health care delivery and is an essential ingredient in patient outcomes (Kelly & Tazbir, 2014).

Questions to consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

For the following questions, you may wish to review the Brown, Bornstein, and Wilcox article “Partnership and Empowerment Program: A Model for Patient-Centered, Comprehensive, and Cost-Effective Care,” listed in the Unit Resources.

• Who makes you accountable for the delegation that you use in your organization, as well as on a state and national level?
• Are there ways you could initiate greater collaboration with the health care team by using delegation?
• What is the purpose of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing delegation decision-making tree?
• What is the long-term implication related to health care cost if the patient or patient population continues to have poor outcomes related to cost containment?
• How can you address cost within your organization, as a nursing leader, and how is this related to patient outcomes?

Instructions

Deliverable: Develop one component of an evidence-based resourcing plan.

Scenario:

The hospital leadership team has already allocated the major capital expenditures for the heart failure clinic, such as the facility, legal services, IT, and security services. However, as a member of the nurse team, you have been asked to develop one component of a resourcing plan for the next leadership meeting.

You may use any combination of documents (for example, a spreadsheet or a table) in addition to explanatory information to convey information clearly and succinctly.

Choose one of the following:

Budget:

• Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
  • Identify the business plan budget categories and subcategories (not necessarily the actual cost) to establish a new clinic.
  • Start-up expenses.
  • Examine fixed and variable costs.
  • Capital budget items.
    • Examples: salary and benefits, staffing mix, specialized equipment or materials, et cetera.
  • Contingency fund and parameters.
• Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.
  • Explain the alignment to best practices and professional standards for cost effective outpatient services.
  • How will uninsured or underinsured patients be managed?
• Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
  • What data resources and tools analyze costs, health insurance, and hospitalization services?
  • How will billing be handled?
  • How will you determine if outpatient management is cost-effective?
  • How does transparency impact the consumer?

Staffing Plan:

• Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
  • Identify the disciplines and skill mix needed for appropriate staffing.
  • Estimate staffing requirements by discipline and staffing ratios (evidence-based).
  • Develop a sample staffing schedule.
  • How will you staff to meet corporate diversity goals or the needs of diverse patients?
  • Explain how delegation, collaboration, negotiation will affect staffing plan.
    • How does a union contract affect the staffing plan or schedule?
      • Examine the Nurse Practice Act for your state.
        • How does the Nurse Practice Act affect your staffing plan?
• Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.
  • Align your staffing plan to best practices, the Nurse Practice Act for your state, scope of practice, and the Joint Commission standards for outpatients.
• Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
  • How will you know if staffing is cost-effective?
  • How will you know if staffing mix or schedule impacts patient outcomes?

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: The plan should be 3–4 pages in content length, double-spaced.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Number of resources: Support your plan with a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources, in addition to professional standards.