Application of the System Theory

 

 

Introduction

            An organization is made up of the energic input-output system, and it usually depends on a good environment which supports the continuous flow of inputs which are necessary to promote sustainability, make use of this inputs together with the promotion of individual interaction to yield better outputs (Morgeson, Mitchell & Liu, 2015). Therefore, an organization is required to make necessary changes to meet the needs or disorders that may arise during its operations.

Health care organization unit

             A health care organization unit comprises the inputs which describe the characteristics of the care recipients, the characteristics of the nurse and other energic sources. Those of the care recipients can include their demographic data such as their age, gender, occupation, gender, and ethnicity. It can also include the health status of the recipients which provides for their physical and psychological health state. There are also resources which are available to them and their medical conditions which encompass the type of the medical diagnoses and their severity (Morgeson, Mitchell & Liu, 2015). There is also the nursing conditions which are the one responsible for creating demand for nursing services in the unit.

            Also, there are nurse characteristics which are part of the inputs in the unit. This generally describes demographic factors of the nurses such as age and gender, the professional aspects and their health factors. The profession shows their occupation factors which include the level of education, their experience, and the level of clinical expertise, licensure, and their employment status of the nurse, other energic inputs such as the presence of materials, the budget allocations, and information. Materials are the equipment and supplies in the unit while the information’s are those that are being communicated in the unit and also the introduction of new technologies into the unit.

            The unit also has a throughput which has several factors. They are the energies in the system which are transformed through reorganization of the available inputs. The work of the nurses is in the production subsystem which is influenced by the nature of the nurses work, the work condition, for example, the environment, and the structure (Burke, 2017). The work of nurses in the unit can be collaborative interventions or independent interventions which involves the provision of care depending on the clinical judgment and the knowledge of the condition to facilitate better patient outcomes.

The nursing services delivery is practiced through control and division of nurses work by the subsystem of management which makes the decisions about the size, the nursing delivery models to be used, the institutional staffing practices and the specific roles (Clayton & Radcliffe, 2015). The nursing care delivery models provide direction on how work is divided among the staff and also how it is coordinated at the group level.

The output is the reflection of the outcomes of nurse’s performance at the unit and their work environments. The clinical results relating to the nursing care can be categorized into; the clinical status outcomes which comprise of management of the patient clinical manifestations and also prevention of complications that may arise. The second is functional status outcomes which involve the physiological and psychological functioning of the client together with his or her self-care abilities (Burke, 2017). There is also valuation which is the perceptions of the care recipients concerning the nursing care they received and its result; and safety outcomes.

The services such as effective nursing care have to be continuous, and therefore the out of service will influence the continuity of the services offered at the unit. The resources from the services provided are used to acquire other resources such as the materials and human resources that are needed in the unit. Quality service delivery to the clients will enable the health facility to be accredited to offer the services.

The problem in the unit

 In the unit, there is a challenge in the issue of staffing. Initially, the staffing was, but the number of people living in the community has increased which has then increased demand of services in the unit, due to this, the staff currently working I the group are overworked, and there has also been overcrowding in the unit. For quality and effective delivery of care to the client, there is a need to increase the number of nurses to meet the demand and ensure there are proper care delivery and flow of service. This is a problem with the input, and thus it needs to be addressed.

Addressing the problem

Inadequate staffing come with a lot of challenges, there is limited delivery of care to the clients in the unit, and therefore there is a need to hire more nurses into the unit. This will promote the satisfaction of both the nurses and the patients, and it will lower the incidences of adverse events, reduce mortality, decrease the chances of poor attendance and also reduce the chances of re-admission into the unit. Furthermore, it will eliminate the issues of stress to the nurses; it will also decrease the chances of absenteeism and injuries to the staff (McHugh et al., 2016). There will also be a reduction in the workload which will, in turn, foster the quality of care delivered to the clients.

The goal is to hire more staff is to fill the gap in the provision of the nursing services in the unit which has been rendered weak due to the inadequate staffing. It is also necessary to ensure enough supplies to meet the demand of the clients attending the unit. It is also essential to practice division of roles among the staff in the unit. This change is to increase the service capacity which will, therefore, increase patient satisfaction. Presence of enough staff and role allocations will reduce the chances of absenteeism and in the long run contribute to quality improvement.

To address the problem, the organization should ensure there is no shortage of staff in the unit by use of  the float pools and the agency nursing. The organization must also increase the budgetary allocation to the unit to facilitate greater hour per patient day.

Professional standards

Maintenance of high professional standards is necessary to ensure quality delivery of the nursing care to the clients. Proper assessment of the client is vital to understand the situation of the client; the data from assessment id then analyzed adequately to determine the diagnosis of the patient. There is also setting up of the expected outcome, planning and implementation of the plan; the implementation can involve health education, coordination of care, consultation from other colleagues and treatment.

It is also necessary for the staff members to stick to the codes of conduct and ethics while providing care to the client. Collaboration between the registered nurse and the healthcare consumer together with their families is also crucial during the care provision (Masters, 2018). Integration of the evidence-based practice into the nursing process will generally improve the quality of care offered to the patient.

How the proposed solution upholds organization mission and values

Recruiting more staff to fill the vacancy created by high demand, arising from the increase in the population of the community will enable the organization to offer high-quality care to the clients as it is the mission of the organization. It will improve service delivery and will have a positive impact on raising the standards of the organization.

 

Summary

Health care system depends on different factors ranging from the input, throughput, the output and also the circle of events. All these factors work interdependently for the health organization to offer quality care to the clients. Challenges may also arise and therefore it appropriate to put measures in place to deal with any problem that may occur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Burke, W. W. (2017). Organization change: Theory and practice. Sage Publications.

Clayton, T., & Radcliffe, N. (2015). Sustainability: a systems approach. Routledge.

Morgeson, F. P., Mitchell, T. R., & Liu, D. (2015). Event system theory: An event-oriented approach to the organizational sciences. Academy of Management Review, 40(4), 515-537.

McHugh, M. D., Rochman, M. F., Sloane, D. M., Berg, R. A., Mancini, M. E., Nadkarni, V. M., ... & American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators. (2016). Better nurse staffing and nurse work environments associated with increased survival of in-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Medical care, 54(1), 74.

Masters, K. (2018). Role development in professional nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning.