Introduction
Providing healthcare systems and facilities with effective and efficient service delivery methodologies can be strengthened their ability to provide care. Health care systems in many nations struggle with a lack of human resources, which raises mortality rates and causes more maternal fatalities. Leading nations utilize the substitution or shifting method to facilitate the optimum working relationship between doctors and nurses to tackle this issue and facilitate effective service delivery (Karimi‐Shahanjarini et al., 2019). The strategy is based on assigning each duty to a healthcare professional in accordance with their area of expertise. This involves handing up some responsibilities from doctors to nurses. This essay explores how personal and professional experiences have been used to advance the relationships between men and women. The lessons learned from the experiences have been applied to the task-shifting approach in a healthcare facility, which has been seen as an ideal strategy that reduces workload and strengthens relationships among all stakeholders of the hospitals.
Personal Relationship
The personal relationship presented in this essay is a friendly experience that has remained a souvenir in my life. My friend Jack and I were playing football on the field, and an unfortunate incident occurred. Our opponents’ defender accidentally hit Jack’s nose with his elbow while defending a duel. Jack’s nose was fractured, leading to an inflammation of the fact that he could not see. We rushed him to the hospital but unfortunately, it was on a public holiday. There were only two nurses in the nearby hospital. The day was overwhelming for the two nurses due to the excessive workload. Before Jack, there were eight more emergencies; therefore, Jack was not attended to with the necessary agency. All this time, Jack was nose bleeding profusely, so he lost consciousness. We had to relocate to a nearby private hospital to access emergency services. Unfortunately, Jack died on the way to the private hospital. This has been the worst personal experience that has driven me to take a BSN course to prevent such an event from happening again in my view. This experience taught me a lesson about maintaining a commitment to my profession and serving people with diligence while adhering to healthcare ethics.
From the lessons learned from the personal relationship, I chose to become a nurse who will uphold ethical principles; beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice to improve the relationships of men and women in society. The ethical duty to maximize good and reduce bad is referred to as the beneficence principle. In order to ensure that the medical act is beneficial to the patient, the professional must possess the highest level of technical knowledge and conviction (an action that does good) (Schwartz et al., 2021). The concept of non-maleficence draws attention to the principle of beneficence prohibiting causing willful harm. This proves that a doctor’s actions must always result in the least injury or damage to the patient’s health (the action that does not harm). The autonomy principle should be upheld in the health sector to treat all the patients who have the cognitive ability to decide on the treatment or guardians who decide on their behalf.
Professional Relationship
The best relationship between nurses and doctors is formed through the substitution approach, which is also economical for the hospital (Greenberg et al., 2018). This benefit has led many politicians to abandon the doctor-centered paradigm in favor of the effective HIV care strategy tested in Africa. This relationship reduces the health care cost since doctors and nurses cooperate to propose and implement preventative medicine over curative medicine (Greenberg et al., 2018). Preventative medicine is cheaper than curative medicine; therefore, healthcare insurance can accommodate all the healthcare expenses of men and women and improve their relationships.
The substitution approach between doctors and nurses has been shown to improve patient access to healthcare. Regarding patient feedback, nurses express a higher degree of satisfaction; by raising patient contentment, the healthcare facility gains favorable feedback on the quality of its services. Physicians share this success. By fostering such a setting, medical professionals can work together to produce services that satisfy patients (Karimi‐Shahanjarini et al., 2019). Moreover, it improves service delivery, improving professional and personal relationships among men and women in society.
A health care facility’s major goal is to give patients services; by implementing the substitution method, skilled nurses can also deliver services at a level equivalent to that of primary care physicians (Greenberg et al., 2018). Promoting teamwork through delegation, this tactic fosters peace by demonstrating respect for the nurses’ services. Hence, quality services are provided to men and women with maximum equality, which improves their relationships.
Conclusion
Patient satisfaction and the success of healthcare services depend heavily on the doctor-nurse interaction. Both nurses and doctors need to feel valued and protected from a work overload in order to respect and encourage equality. There is no more effective way to accomplish this than using a substitute technique. Any healthcare setting can accomplish cooperation, equity, and service delivery by implementing the substitution method, which helps the center achieve its stated goals and fulfill its mission.
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