Intent to Action: the Planning Path

Mission Statement for the Organization 

As a non-profit long-term care facility, the nursing home identified for this assignment, Mary Manning Walsh Home, aims at the delivery of the best possible care to the patients and their loved ones. The mission of Mary Manning Walsh Home is to ensure management of all elements of well-being concerning the physical, mental, and spiritual growth in the professional, as well as safe environment, thus, provision of holistic care to all clients. Additionally, Mary Manning Walsh Home strives in facilitating promotion of respect, dignity, and independence as much as possible through collective support to ensure the delivery of quality care with the desired trust and compassion at different times.

Statement of Philosophy 

Consistent with the above mission statement, my nursing department focuses on the utilization of the nursing philosophy associated with the work of Jean Watson as one of the prominent nursing theorists. In the department, we believe in the optimization of the professional, as well as personalized care from the heart to the patients regardless of the diversities (Chen, Mullins, Novak, & Thomas, 2016). There is need to maintain this collective delivery of professional and personalized care to the patients regardless of the difference in sexual preferences, age, race, national background, religion, and socio-economic status. The approach is a reflection of the respect, as well as support to the diversity of the respective patients and their families in pursuit of the improved healthcare outcomes at the end of each operational period.

Moreover, as a department, in the delivery of quality care to the patients, we believe in the integration of the perceptions aimed at preserving the rights to confidentiality, privacy, and ethics in the delivery practices. The department aims at utilizing effective assessment, diagnosis, and quality planning of the care delivery, as well as integration or evaluation process aimed at promoting dignity, healing, and the desired comfort. Furthermore, the department focuses on the promotion of evidence-based research in informing the delivery of quality care for the achievement of improved healthcare outcomes (Reuben & Sinsky, 2018). The department also believes in the collaborative approach to care delivery as evident in the provision of the opportunity for profession growth and development. This is through enhanced communication, engagement, collaboration, and loyalty among the colleagues in the achievement of the set goals and targets. Finally, as a department, we believe in the execution of our roles and expectations as advocates to the optimization of the clinical outcomes in the safe, quality, and healing environment.

Policy 

One of the appropriate healthcare policies in line with the statement of philosophy in the previous section is the development of the collaborative healthcare setting involving patients, families, and the diverse team associated with highly specialized professionals (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). The policy is an interactive platform to facilitate the provision of exceptional care.

Specific Procedures 

Various procedures are ideal in expressing the aspects of collaborative healthcare delivery in the third question as instructions for the action. First, there is the creation and optimization of the multifunctional team aimed at generating unique perspectives with similar skills and experience. In this team, patients, as well as their families and other relevant stakeholders have the chance for the ideal participation in the delivery of healthcare (Rycroft-Malone, Burton, Bucknall, Graham, Hutchinson, & Stacey, 2016). The team proves to be more effective and efficient in the utilization of the innovative approaches to improve healthcare outcomes of the patients regardless of the diversities. Second, the delivery of the healthcare in this department, as an output of the policy, is a reflection of coordination, cooperation, shared decision-making, and partnerships as valuable elements in the realization of improved efficiency in the care delivery (Mulvale, Embrett, & Razavi, 2016). These procedures are critical in the achievement of the optimal healthcare outcome while reducing potential risks in the delivery of quality and safe care following the needs and expectations of the patients and their families.

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Reeves, S., Pelone, F., Harrison, R., Goldman, J., & Zwarenstein, M. (2017). Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , (6).

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