Entrepreneurial Nursing: What Are The Skills and Opportunities For Addressing Health Related Concerns
Entrepreneurial Nursing: What Are The Skills and Opportunities For Addressing Health Related Concerns
Entrepreneurial Nursing: What Are The Skills and Opportunities For Addressing Health Related Concerns
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January 28, 2018
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Entrepreneurial nursing: What are the skills and opportunities for addressing health
related concerns:
The concept of entrepreneurship has four main components of skills for addressing health related
concerns: These are being innovative and creative, risk taking, pioneering and competitive
thinking.
Being innovative and creative refers to seek creative, unusual and new solutions to the
problems and requirements.
Pioneering refers to take responsibility and go into action by taking the necessary
decisions instead of following others.
Entrepreneurship initiates and develops change in the structure of business administration and
society, thus it contributes to the growth of entrepreneurial activities as well as playing important
roles in terms of the economic progress and social development of a country (Ekici, 2016).
Entrepreneurship has a strategic significance for developing economies such as the Philippines.
Because the ways to gain profit, to activate the unused potential and to create new business
districts are to encourage entrepreneurs (Korkmaz, 2012; Yılmaz and Sünbül, 2009).
In America, continued skyrocketing of healthcare costs, less than impressive heath status of the
American people, safety and quality issues within the healthcare system, growing concerns that
cost and quality issues would intensify with changing demographics, and the reality that there
were 50 million Americans uninsured and 40 million underinsured in the United States ushered
in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Salmond, 2015).
In the Philippines, the reports notes, the level of per-person healthcare spending is one of the
lowest among Southeast Asia’s major economies. At 4.6%, the same holds true for spending as a
proportion of GDP. Due to weak public financing, that number is expected to drop to 4.5% by
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2018. At the same time, the nation’s healthcare spending is projected to increase an average of
8% annually, from an estimated $12.5 billion in 2013 to $20 billion in 2018.
Nursing has a critical contribution in healthcare reform and the demands for a safe, quality,
patient-centered, accessible, and affordable healthcare system (IOM, 2010). To deliver these
outcomes, nurses, from the chief nursing officer to the staff nurse, must understand how nursing
practice must be dramatically different to deliver the expected level of quality care and
proactively and passionately become involved in the change.
Sources:
Research on the updated Philippine Condition on how to deal with scarcity of healthcare
1. Compare and contrast the national health status of 2001 and now.
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Allocated budget can only treat commodities, training, and deployment programs.
50% of cases which is The next largest share is for Hospital Services,
negligible as it spreads which funds the operations of DOH retained
hospitals. Health Sector Policy Services are spent
on activities such as consultations and research
necessary for policy development. Health Sector
Regulation Services is for the licensing and
monitoring services provided by the DOH
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c. Cost of Antiretrovirals costs In 2016, the FHRP budget declined to PhP
Drugs and 350,000/year 2.3 B. The reduction of PhP 1 B in
Medicines theapproved GAA were for the object of
P10 drugs such as Adalat etc
expenditure: drugs & medicine.
(for heart related diseases) can
cost up to P75M daily costs for
patients and revenues for
pharmaceuticals. And this is
only for 1 drug
1. Diarrheal disease
2. Pneumonia
3. Bronchitis
4. Influenza
5. TB of all forms
6. Malaria
7. CVD
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8. Measles
9. Chicken Pox
10. Dengue Fever
Mortality:
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have the opportunity to claim PhilHealth
benefits
1. How are they going to answer the basic economic health questions?
1. What to produce?
Deterioration in the quality of health facilities and service delivery resulted to bypassing of lower
levels of care even for primary cases and resulted in congestion in the higher hospital levels
These issues have been the basis for the creation of the Health Facility Enhancement Program
(HFEP).
The HFEP is a national program that assists in enabling government healthcar facilities to
provide quality health care towards Universal Health Care through th allocation of Capital
Outlay and procurement of health infrastructure and equipment.
2. How to produce?
Health service delivery network (of health facilities and providers) based on assigned
catchment areas to address the current fragmentation of health services in some areas.
Fiscal autonomy through income retention schemes for government hospitals and health
facilities and optimal utilization of PHIC reimbursements And in terms of budget for
buying equipment In 2017, PhP 24.19 B was allocated for improving the primary health
care facilities for gatekeeping and delivery of preventive/primary health care services and
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for decongesting DOH hospitals to be able to provide affordable quality tertiary care and
specialized treatments.
all Filipinos, both the well and the sick. The government ensures that health care services be
available for All Life Stages & Triple Burden of Diseases. This guarantee basically summarizes
that a Filipino is entitled to a comprehensive range of services that promote health and protect
everyone from getting sick at all ages and all stages (from womb to tomb).
Entitlements include services to address (1) Communicable diseases (e.g HIV/AIDS, TB,
Malaria, etc.), (2) Non-communicable diseases including malnutrition (Hypertension, Diabetes,
Cancers, and their risk factors), and (3) Diseases of rapid urbanization and industrialization (i.e.
injuries, substance abuse, mental illness, pandemics, travel medicine, and health consequences of
climate change / disaster)
Reference sources:
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