DOCTORATE WRITERS: NUR 630 Health Care Culture

DOCTORATE WRITERS: NUR 630 Health Care Culture

The other principle for a culture of excellence and safety is evidence-based practice. In this case, there must be a desire to change and solve problems comprehensively. Li et al. (2019) defined evidence-based practice (EBP) as a problem-solving approach that combines scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences to solve clinical problems. Its goal is to ensure that issues hampering care quality and patient safety are addressed effectively. Such an approach ensures that patients receive the best care possible based on the best evidence and incorporating patient values in treatment plans. EBP also ensures that processes are proven and up-to-date.

Stakeholders’ Roles in Improving Health Care Culture

A health care culture’s goals cannot be achieved without active stakeholder participation. All stakeholders must work collaboratively to establish norms, policies, values, and beliefs for enabling an organization to achieve excellence and safety goals. The first influential stakeholder group involves the leadership, comprising of the management, nurse leaders, and departmental leaders. Leaders use their positions to foster appropriate cultures, influence best practices, and guide health care teams to achieve shared visions (Ayeleke et al., 2018). They also play an instrumental role in condemning and restricting practices that hamper care quality and patient safety.

Besides the leaders, the health care staff and patients’ role is essential in improving health care culture. Progressive outcomes’ improvement cannot be achieved without their engagement and commitment. Through their everyday interaction and close communication with patients, nurses and other health care professionals get a more comprehensive view of patient needs (Sibiya, 2018). They also better understand challenges that hamper outcomes and interventions necessary to achieve excellence and safety standards. As a result, they should drive relevant practice changes to improve quality and safety, among other critical health care aspects. In their part, patients should collaborate with health care providers to achieve the objectives of evidence-based practice. They should be ready to adopt practices that improve health and inform health care providers about their values and preferences.

Using Christian Worldview (CWV) Principles to Improve Ethical Practices

Health care organizations must promote ethical practice. Doing so ensures that the patient-provider relationship is not damaged, among other adverse consequences of unethical practice. To achieve the desired performance and relationship goals, health care organizations can use CWV principles to improve ethical practice. Such principles include human dignity, the common good, and subsidiarity. Human dignity involves recognizing that all human beings possess a unique value regardless of their age, social class, gender, and ethnicity, among other factors. In the same frame, patients and colleagues should be seen as unique individuals deserving respect and protection from harm. It helps to promote equality too. Common good is acting in a way beneficial to all, aligning with the principle of beneficence that obliges health care providers to act for the patients’ benefit by removing harm, protecting patients’ rights, and helping vulnerable patients (Varkey, 2021). A suitable example of subsidiarity is a nurse feeling responsible for patient needs. In such a case, nurses assume their profession more of a responsibility to serve instead of a duty that should be compensated.

Integrating Faith Learning and Work at GCU to Improve Health Care Culture

Broadly, integrating faith learning and work at GCU involves acting being guided by the Christian faith and doctrines. Such a concept can be implemented by promoting servant leadership based on the tenet that serving others is service to God. In this case, serving patients and nursing colleagues represents living as a co-worker of God’s activities. The other way of implementing the concept is fostering interprofessional collaboration following the principle that human beings should help to ease others’ burdens. Continuous promotion of service leadership and interprofessional collaboration builds a culture where health care providers mind each other and work to achieve a shared vision. Workplace conflicts and other issues hampering patient outcomes are minimal in such a culture.

Conclusion

Health care organizations should never tolerate average results. They should foster a culture founded on excellence and ensure optimal patient safety always. To achieve this goal, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and interprofessional collaboration should dominate practice. Stakeholders must also play their part dilige