NURS-FPX6004 Mensah Ivy Assessment 2-1

NURS-FPX6004 Mensah Ivy Assessment 2-1

A Summary of the Proposed Policy and Practice Guidelines

The proposed organizational policy for Mercy Medical Center is the patient care policy. The

practice guidelines to implement this policy are through community training, awareness, and

patient education on the importance of diabetes examinations. This is important because it aims

to increase the number of patients undergoing foot exams and HgbA1c tests. The environmental

factors that impact these practice guidelines include the number of nurses in the hospital, the

number of hospital facilities, and interprofessional collaboration. Nurses play an essential role in

patient care and education, so having the correct number of nurses is needed to implement this

policy. The number of facilities used in the hospital also greatly determines the number of

patients coming in for prediabetes examinations. The Centers for disease control and prevention,

CDC, and the American Medical Association (AMA), launched an awareness program, “Do I

Have Prediabetes?” which turned out to be the first national prediabetes awareness campaign.

This implies that an awareness campaign is one of the most valuable tools in ensuring that more

people know about their prediabetes conditions, that is, the likelihood of having diabetes.

According to CDC in the National Diabetes Statistics Report in 2020, an estimated 13% of adults

over 18 years had diabetes, while 34.5% had prediabetes