The complexity of modern health care settings accounts for the demand of quality care delivery, affordable care, and reliable care services. Patients anticipate rationalized and reliable care services that accounts for the payment they make. Besides patients’ presumptions, Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) should deploy the services of the other health practitioners to ensure high and quality care services are delivered to patients; to enhance and promote quality life in families and communities. Typically, health care settings assimilate several processes that emphasize quality care outcomes and patient satisfaction (Conover & Richards, 2015). Notably, the health care processes that warrant effective care delivery include administrative and clinical-related processes. Advanced practice nurses strategize, evaluate, implement, and gradually analyze the processes to ensure and maintain quality care services are delivered to patients. Subsequently, the paper discusses the process of advanced practice nurse business planning from a system approach.
The first phase of the care business plan process is focusing on the plan objectives and beginning a research. There significant factors that require consideration that include the target population (Hahn & Cook, 2018). The care plan should address a specific health problem in a specific population, for instance, type 2 diabetes clinical interventions among adults above 45 years. Again, the care plan should consider other factors such as the range of operational time, location of the care practice, nature of services, and a clear gap identification statement.
Secondly, the advanced practice nurse acting as the project manager should consider the business profile of the care plan. At this business care plan step, the project manager should derive both mission and vison statements (Johnson & Garvin, 2017). For instance, the project manager can have a mission statement that reads; In partnership with the client, ABC Care Institution provides primary care to pregnant mothers, children and the elderly. Specifically, the services will be delivered at the healthcare facilities and in residential areas of the clients on appointment. A vison statement should address the objectives of the care plan, for instance, the statement should read; The healthcare facility seeks to offer and provide quality and affordable primary care and care education among children, the elderly, and pregnant mothers. The services are customized to meet the lifestyle of the clients.
The final phase of the care business plan requires the manager to clearly propose service delivery mechanism of the facility (Conover & Richards, 2015). The stage entails staffing; mobilizing a professional team that is qualified and capable of delivering quality care to the target groups. Additionally, the stage includes mobilization of equipment and facility. Notably, during the stage, the project outlines and shortlists required equipment according to the care purpose of the facility.
Subsequently, mobilizing and putting together the aforementioned phases of the care business plan, implementation of the plan follows, and later on the evaluation. Notably, a private care scheme is preferable since the advanced practice nurses fully deploy and practice their license and skills. However, there are variations of practice according to legal standards in different countries and states (Hahn & Cook, 2018). For example, in the US, the state of scope determines limits of exercise, in some states advanced practice nurses can diagnose, certify disability, and order physical therapy. States that have fully practice authority permit their advanced practice nurses to have responsibility and liability of management and evaluation of patients. Accountably, a care business plan is significant in formulating key policies and strategies that promise quality and effective care delivery settings.
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Conover, C., & Richards, R. (2015). Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. Nursing Outlook, 63(5), 585-592.
Hahn, J. A., & Cook, W. (2018). Lessons Learned from Nurse Practitioner Independent Practice: A Conversation with a Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur. Nursing Economics, 36(1), 18-22.
Johnson, J. E., & Garvin, W. S. (2017). Advanced practice nurses: Developing a business plan for an independent ambulatory clinical practice: nursing Economics, 35(3), 126.