Decision Making in Nursing (Essay Sample)

DECISION -MAKING IN NURSING
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Nursing 306: Methods of decision making in an organization
12th Jan, 2015

Decision-Making in Nursing
All our organizational decision-making practices are aimed at improving patient care and ensuring high standard delivery our services. The most utilized decision-making strategy is shared decision-making (SDM) which seeks to integrate patient-centered ideas into standards of care. Here the patient is allowed to choose from among available health care options in accordance with his/her desires. SDM Goes a long way in improving patient care by making them feel part of the whole process. For example, if a patient has malaria after a consultation with our doctor he/she is allowed to choose between chloroquine, coartem and doxycycline which are all medications
The second method used in our organization evidence-informed decision-making that involves a continuous interactive process that takes into account all evidence and facts presented before making any decision in providing the best health care. Sarah and john stone (2008) among others advices that all the evidence should be acquired through scientific research and evaluation of the whole process.1 This decision-making builds an evidence-based health care system that takes into consideration of the many factors beyond evidence such as cultural background and religious beliefs. All this work together in raising our health services to a very high stand and ensuring that our patients get the best heath care

Lastly in our organization we use patient-centered decision making that is based respect, emotional support, physical comfort, information communication, continuity and transition, care coordination and access to care.
Research has shown that this method of decision-making improves patient care experience and enhances public value for health service. In the seminal institute of medicine report, this method is recognized as high-quality health care system. This method improves quality and safety by focusing on patients and consumers. All our AIDS patients in our organization enjoy this kind of decisions that we make while taking their situation into consideration.
In conclusion, all these three decisions making used in our organization are not applied in isolation to each other but are used interchangea...