Healthcare Policy: Impact of Health Legislation on Nursing

Summary of the Bill

  • Encouraging funding for Covid-19 status individuals’ grouping.
  • Increased test kits and personnel if adopted.
  • Training on emergency preparedness and infection control.
  • Numerous programs to tame Covid-19, support bill.
  • Cushioning of elderly and PWDs in society.

Impact of the Bill on Nursing Practice Standards; If Passed

  • Enhanced strict following of all Covid-19 protocols
  • Upholding ethical code of conduct, especially communication.
  • Dedication of staff to serve most vulnerable.
  • Stringent measures enhancing service delivery amongst facilities.
  • Quality health, social and emotional support provision
  • No staff, patients and families guidelines.
  • No measures enacted to curb pandemic spread.
  • Exposure of elderly and PWDs not addressed.
  • Likely compromise of caregivers’ safety and health.
  • No technological systems adopted in nursing practice.

Impact of the Bill on Individual Nursing Practice

  • Favorable patient-nurse ratio; engaging additional nursing professions.
  • Gained skills in new infection control protocols.
  • Exhibiting caring skills while dealing with vulnerable.
  • Frequent counseling and moral support to victims.
  • Provision of appropriate PPEs and conducive environments.

Concerns about or Support for the Bill Based on Nursing Practice, Standards, or Patient Outcomes

  • Bill looks into safety of all stakeholders.
  • Provides for Covid-19 preventive and control measures.
  • Lays foundation for handling any impending pandemic.
  • Lauds nursing homes and their inherent workforces.
  • Support bill; advocates assenting by congress committees.

Impact of the Bill on the Community

  • Vulnerable persons in society will be protected.
  • Enhanced correlation between community and nursing homes.
  • Employment of the unemployed and nursing trainees.
  • Supply of personal protective equipment to community.
  • Improved communication channels between facilities and families.

Restrictive Measures to Strengthen the Fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic

  • Restriction of physical visits to nursing homes.
  • Limiting direct contact with the infected persons.
  • Reduced exposure hours to the isolation sections.
  • Restrictive inter-facility transfers and discharge of patients.
  • Social-distancing for patients in assisted living facilities.

Nursing Homes as Fundamental Facilities in Handling and Containing Covid-19 Pandemic

  • Caregivers – centered as critical factor in patient-care.
  • Handles safety concerns in complex care facilities.
  • Offer support and services to older adults.
  • Facilitate living of disabled persons at homes.
  • Creation of awareness amongst individuals in community.

Safeguarding the Vulnerable Persons in the Society from Infection by Pandemic

  • Universal testing of all staff and residents.
  • Providing paid sick leave for vulnerable staff.
  • Protective safety gears supply to vulnerable residents.
  • Health PPEs for all staff handling Covid-19.
  • Separating elderly and PWDs persons in facilities.

Bolstered Protocols in Communication Channels in Nursing Home Facilities

  • Families are continuously informed about victims’ care.
  • Informing families on alternative facilities placement procedures.
  • Timely communication on inter-facility transfer or discharge.
  • Caregivers putting in place advance Medicare plans.
  • Facilities providing video-enabled devices for family-patient communications.

Precautions to Caregivers to Observe Personal Safety and Health

  • Calls for unconditional provision of adequate PPEs.
  • Management protocols for individual well-being and safety.
  • Lowering anxiety of caregivers during healthcare provision.
  • Initiating programs to mitigate the associated stresses.
  • Encouraging caregivers to join online support groups.

Mobilization and Engagement of Social Work Trainees

  • Addresses the shortcoming of shortages in workforce.
  • Entrusted to maintain social support to patients.
  • Assigned to offer communication support amongst parties.
  • Also facilitate the universal testing of residents.
  • Enforce facility’s adherence to infection control procedures.

Conclusion

  • Bill prioritizes everyone’s safety, well-being and health.
  • Visitation restriction should not affect family-patients engagements.
  • Accredits elderly are most vulnerable to Covid-19.
  • Family, residents and staff connectivity is crucial.

State ombudsman to help streamline Covid-19 guidelines.

References:

GovTrack.us. (2020). H.R. 6972 — 116th Congress: Nursing Home COVID-19 Protection and Prevention Act of 2020. Web.

Text of H.R. 6972: Nursing Home COVID-19 Protection and Prevention Act of 2020 (Introduced version) – GovTrack.us. GovTrack.us. (2020). Web.

Questions for H.R. 6972: Nursing Home COVID-19 Protection and Prevention Act of 2020 – GovTrack.us. GovTrack.us. (2020). Web.

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