Summary
Because of the rapid expansion occurring within the realm of public health care, the need for both public and private organizations, whether they are charity-based or the ones acquiring annual benefits, to align their actions and cooperate. A major improvement of the public health services provision is the expected result of the specified collaboration.
The IOM organization was not the first one to coin the term “population health” (Bialek, Moran & Kirshy, 2015), yet it has clearly broken new grounds in the designated area. It has been proven that, when combined, the efforts of nursing organizations lead to the most efficient results (Bialek, Moran & Kirshy, 2015). Moreover, the long-term goals of the communities involved can be reached within a shorter amount of time once the existing nursing organizations join their efforts.
Herein the Population Health Driver Diagram (PHDD) factors in. Created and tested by the Public Health Foundation, the specified concept creates the premises for the organizations in the domains of public health and health care to collaborate productively. The concept is defined as the framework that helps identify and planning the measures that must be undertaken for successful attainment of the community’s objectives (Bialek, Moran & Kirshy, 2015).
The significance and effects of the PHDD was proven in 2012, when the reconsideration of the usage of antibiotics was on the agenda of both healthcare services and the services for public health provision. The diagram was applied in three locations (Missouri, Connecticut and Maine) and returned rather fruitful results. The success of the outcomes can be explained by the fact that each state approached the issue from a different angle; when combined, the perspectives pointed at an original and unique solution.
Application
Being a groundbreaking concept in the provision of additional opportunities for nurses, the PHDD has been employed quite successfully in the realm of nursing. To be more specific, the above-mentioned concept has been employed in several nursing programs. First and most obvious, the diagram has been used widely as a basic tool for educating nurses (Bialek, Moran & Kirshy, 2015).
More to the point, the PHDD approach is a perfect example of solving a problem with the help of a complex solution. Despite the fact that the PHDD Indeed, the PHDD displays the means of linking several areas into a single framework, therefore, teaching nursing specialists to search for every possible solution to a specific problem. As a result, nurses are not limited to a single model of addressing a complicated medical issue and are capable of collaborating with the representatives of healthcare and public health services.
At this point, the issue of information transfer must be addressed. Living in the era of the 21st century means being capable of receiving, processing and transferring information fast so that all those concerned could retrieve the necessary data as soon as possible. The aforementioned issue of data transfer is especially significant for healthcare and nursing specialists, seeing that human lives often hinge on the speed of delivering a certain message.
Therefore, the incorporation of the PHDD approach is essential to the provision of consistent and flawless nursing services, as the quality of the latter are dependent on the information provided by the corresponding healthcare or public health facilities. A major improvement in the coordination of nursing, public health and healthcare workers’ actions, the introduction of the PHDD into the nursing setting is clearly going to have a vast impact on the success of patient treatment and interventions.
Reference List
Bialek, R., Moran, J. & Kirshy, M. (2015). Using a population health driver diagram to support health care and public health collaboration. Institute of Medicine. Web.