Health care providers around the globe are facing pressure to increase the outcome of hospitalized patients since there has been a clear indication that are many deaths of hospitalized patients compared to non-hospitalized patients. This is being experienced because patients prefer to seek medical attention in health care facilities that provide superior medical care or health facilities with a good reputation. Providing the best outcome in patients is the main objective of medical care facilities, no matter the remuneration of the methods being applied. Due to this pressure, health care providers have been facing many challenges when it comes to improving these outcomes. Do hospitalize elderly years patients above 65 years experiencing multiple hospital-acquired infections face a higher death threat than their non-hospitalized counterparts a year after the onset of the first coronavirus symptoms?
Improving health care outcomes might sometimes be expensive to the health care providers, but failing to improve the result of the patients might even be more expensive. Failing to improve the outcome of health care might cause the death of the patients, which will cost their lives, and this has been proved by the many casualties of the hospitalized patients in the population age of 65 years and above (Górska, 2019). Older people who have been hospitalized face many death outcomes compared to non-hospitalized older adults. Therefore, it the mandate of the health care providers to shift their focus in improving the result of the elderly patients that have been hospitalized.
Healthcare-associated infections are those infections or diseases that infect patients while acquiring medications. Research has proved that providing health care can also cause harm to patients (Górska, 2019). Elderly individuals that have been hospitalized faces diverse health complications that sometimes cause their deaths. These complications might include surgical implications and adverse drug events.
Several nursing interventions need to be implemented to provide the best outcome in the hospitalized medical facilities. Taking good care of the medical personnel that offers their services to the hospitalized patients, especially in the elderly wing, can help improve the outcome of those patients to reduce the number of deaths experienced after the hospitalization (Salaripour, 2018). Providing a good and healthy environment such as better staffing, providing quality management, and investment in the employee’s development can help reduce the mortality in elderly patients. When the nurses have disruptive behavior, the outcome of the patients must turn out to be harmful since they are settled in mind to give them the chance of providing quality medical care for their patients.
The outcomes of the patients can be improved through transparency in all departments in medical facilities. If all the medical practitioners do their work efficiently and with clarity, they are a high chance of positive outcomes. The doctors’ quality of diagnosis, treatment decisions, and following up on treatment about the patient significantly impact the patient’s outcome. This can only be achieved when the medical care providers directly engage their patients in the data collection related to their treatment plan and follow-up.
There have been many deaths experienced among the elderly patients that were hospitalized because most medical care providers do not have any follow-up plan after the patient have been discharged out of the hospital. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the medical care providers to establish a follow-up routine that is aimed at monitoring the progress of their discharged patients (Górska, 2019). Engaging with the elderly patients after they have been released might be a challenge due to their socioeconomic factors such as poor education, unemployment which sometimes may force these older adults to neglect their medical treatment plan; hence this is the leading cause of mortality of hospitalized elderly patients.
References
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