Applicability of the Clinical Care Classification in the Electronic Document Management of Nursing Staff to Improve the Efficiency of Medical Services in the Health System of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Policy Brief

Abstract

Currently, the nursing process is at the core of nursing education and practice, creating a scientific base for nursing care. The nursing process is one of the basic and integral concepts of the modern model of nursing service. This concept was given birth in the United States in the mid-50s and over the years of testing in clinical settings has proved its feasibility.

In the health system, the professional group of secondary medical personnel is the most numerous and has a significant impact on ensuring the quality, availability of medical care, and efficiency of the entire system.

Over the years, nurses from different countries have sought to gain recognition for their profession. The main goal was to establish the boundaries of their professional activities, the differences between medical and nursing duties, to create a terminological and conceptual apparatus of the profession and to determine the scientific method of providing nursing care to patients (clients).

One of the most relevant areas of healthcare reforms in Kazakhstan is the development and expansion of the functions of nursing staff, including the maintenance of nursing documentation, the establishment of a nursing diagnosis, monitoring and management of patients, etc.

What is the problem?

1. Lack of a single terminological and conceptual apparatus for all nurses;
2. Workload of general practitioners;
3. Implementation of patient attendance by nurses under the doctor's login;
4. Lack of payment to nurses for services rendered;
5. In appreciation of the role of the average medical worker in the treatment process;
6. Low potential in the nursing service.

Policy options

Scenario 1. Institutionalization of CCC in the health system of the Republic of Kazakhstan through the gradual introduction into information systems of the international classification of nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions in the practice of secondary medical workers.

Scenario 2. Interaction of vertical links in the implementation of the CCC by making appropriate changes to regulatory legal acts.

Scenario 3. Financing of nursing services by including nursing services in the medical services tariff.

The vision for the implementation of the scenarios/policy options.

Each of these policy options can contribute to improving the efficiency of providing medical care to the population, the status of secondary medical personnel, and the development of their critical thinking. However, given the different options in the direction of actions, resources and methods used, these policy options can provide a more significant achievement of the goal in improving the quality and effectiveness of introduction when they are implemented in association.