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Nursing Protocol

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For this assignment, you are given a real-world scenario as follows:
The Director of Nursing (DON) for the local health department has been assigned by the Medical Director to develop a plan to handle an emergency plan with the local long-term care facility (LTCF). She will serve on a team with the health department emergency preparedness coordinator and the epidemiologist. Neither the DON nor medical director have been in their current positions for more than six months. The DON has resided in the area for several years, had worked at the local hospital for three years before obtaining her current position. The medical director came from another health department in another state. He had been involved in a hurricane which impacted the local nursing home where two patients died due to a food-borne outbreak. The emergency preparedness coordinator is experienced and works with the state level emergency preparedness team. The epidemiologist has lived in the area for 20 years and has been the epidemiologist for over 15 years at this health department. The nurse is assigned to develop a nursing protocol regarding patient care to be included in the disaster plan coordinating agreement between the LTCF and the health department. The health department team will work with representatives from the LTCF nursing department. Use the following template to develop this policy/protocol:
Designated authority.
Describe the problem. List the proposed nursing diagnosis.
Background: Introduce the business case for why developing this protocol is necessary. Provide the data and information to support the protocol.
Identify other persons needed to serve on this team from both the LTCF and health department.
Generate a list of what information about the nursing care facility is needed to develop this plan and delineate assignments to the appropriate persons.
Objectives: Delineate one to three objectives for this plan. Make sure the objectives are in behavioral terms, are measurable and realistic. Include timeframes.
Proposed Interventions: Develop a comprehensive list of action steps for both the LTCF and the health department to be included in this plan.
Expected Benefits: Describe the expected benefits and outcome of the interventions taken.
Audit and evaluation: Describe how the outcomes will be evaluated. Propose what and how pertinent audit findings will be used to evaluate the success of the plan. Describe how ongoing monitoring and review of the strategies will be done.
Include at least three references using the APA style. Keep statements succinct, clear and without opinions. Limit the protocol to no more than three pages.

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Nursing Protocol
Student’s Name
Institution
Nursing Protocol
The Problem
Developing an infectious disease preparedness plan is crucial. Infectious diseases are re-emerging and emerging rapidly, thanks to globalization, climate change, and the spread of new pathogens, among other factors (Bloom, Black, & Rappuoli, 2017). Yet, there is a lack of preparedness at the local, national, and even global levels.
Nursing Diagnosis
* Fatigue: Inability to maintain physical and mental activity due to exhaustion
* Risk for infection (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2016)
Background
Due to the current lack of preparedness when it comes to addressing emerging infectious diseases, it is important to establish a protocol that can be utilized at the local level and more specifically, in a long-term care facility (LTCF). A high number of Americans, more than 1.4 million, currently reside in LTCFs and form part of the most vulnerable populations to disaster. For instance, during Hurricane Katrina, about 12% of the casualties happened in the LTCFs (Pierce, et al., 2016). LTCFs lack adequate resources, including experience, for disaster management. Also, during disasters, many staff members may be unavailable as they are dealing with family issues during the disaster as well. When it comes to infectious diseases, residents in LTCF are at a greater risk of infection due to various factors that make them vulnerable (Lee, Lee, Lee, & Park, 2020). For instance, many residents in LTCFs have chronic conditions that make them prone to infections. Also, many healthcare workers in LTCFs lack the necessary knowledge about the prevention and control of infection, and those who do rarely comply with the necessary prevention and control measures. Finally, the living conditions in LTCFs make it difficult to isolate infected individuals. It is, therefore, important to ensure that residents, healthcare workers, and families are not exposed to an emergent infectious disease while in the LTCF by adopting this protocol.
Other Team Members
* Infection preventionist who will be responsible for researching the disease and training the healthcare workers of infection prevention and control.
* Information officer who will be responsible for documenting and sharing the information about the disease with relevant stakeholders.
* Nurse leader at the LTCF who will be responsible for supervising healthcare the healthcare workers and ensuring that they observe the protocol.
Required Information about the LTCF
The existing controls that are currently in place in the LTCF including the number of isolation rooms, the procedure for handling contaminated items, visitors' policy, and the infection prevention and control policy.
Objectives
* To protect residents and healthcare workers from exposure to infectious disease during their stay within the LTCF
* To reduce the spread of infection when there is a suspected case in the LTCF wi...
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