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Leadership in public health programs

Kimberly Crawford

Kaplan University

December 15, 2017

Important leadership characteristics needed for public health promotion program

A doctor patient relationship is the basis of medical practice and thus of medical ethics. Therefore, several patients are in general not able or reluctant to make choices about their healthcare, therefore, patient autonomy is at times extremely challenging. Equally challenging are additional conditions of the relationship, for instances the doctor’s obligation to keep patient confidentiality in a time of computerized medical records and managed care, and the duty to maintain life in the face of petitions to hurry, and or speed up death. If patients feel the doctor’s kindheartedness, they will be others likely to belief the doctor to act in their best interests, and

This belief can be instrumental to the healing pathway (Pate, 1995). Having such individuals who may or may not forsake their right to value and equal care, or are doctors expected to formulate more, maybe even noble, attempts to develop and keep good relationships with them? Those specific patients, doctors should balance their liabilities for his or her-own safety and protection and the same for their employees with their responsibility to increase the safety of the patients. They ought to try to find methods to honor both responsibilities (Wright & Rowitz, 2000). If not possible, they must try to develop another plan for the treatment of the patients. Additional disputes to the standards of dignity and equal care for each patient evolves in the treatment of infectious patients. In this case, there should be very big cohesion relationship between the doctors and the potential patient within the hospitals and nursing homes.

Doctors and nurses as potential leaders in public health promotion program of choice

I have chosen doctors and the nurses as the potential leaders in y health program following the fact that a healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is one that a patient occurs while receiving treatment in a healthcare facility. In this promotion nursing care program, doctors in cooperation with the nurses will be the leaders of focus. The institution or the organization focused can be a hospital, nursing home, surgery center, dialysis clinic or free clinic. It is estimated that on average one in twenty hospitalized patients will contract and HAI. These infections are a major public health concern not only because they cost billions of dollars to treat, but because they can be contracted from routine care, surgical procedures, catheters or ventilators and from overusing antibiotics (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998). With the increasing rise of drug-resistant bacteria finding antibiotics to treat bacterial infections are becoming harder to find. At least one antimicrobial drug is resistant to 70 percent of HAIs. There is hope for reducing HAIs. There are simple prevention measures that healthcare workers and facilities can take to ensure the safety of their patients the reduce HAIs. Focus needs to be emphasized on proper hand hygiene practices. Better sterilization techniques for medical devices and importance of proper fit for respirators and ventilators. Training courses need to be established for healthcare staff that is tailored to their units (Brown, Cueto, & Fee, 2006). Finally, there needs to be a more proactive approach to data reporting on HAIs. Currently, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data on HAIs through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), but not all states are required by law to report the data. Although, many hospitals still submit data to the CDC, there still needs to be a federal mandate that HAIs must bare ported in every hospital facility health care program of my choice.

References

Brown, T. M., Cueto, M., & Fee, E. (2006). The World Health Organization and the transition from “international” to “global” public health. American journal of public health, 96(1), 62-72.

Israel, B. A., Schulz, A. J., Parker, E. A., & Becker, A. B. (1998). Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. Annual review of public health, 19(1), 173-202.

Pate. (1995). Physical activity and public health: a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine. Jama, 273(5), 402-407.

Wright, K., Rowitz, (2000). Competency development in public health leadership. American Journal of Public Health, 90(8), 1202.