Evidence-based projects and interventions are critical in improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes (Melnyk et al., 2022). Access to mental healthcare services, especially in the rural and remote locations is critical to addressing the current mental health crisis in the United States. Leveraging technologies like telehealth can enhance access to mental health services. Organizations should be ready to implement changes aimed at increasing access to mental healthcare, including leveraging technologies like telehealth and telemedicine. The essence of this presentation to describe an EBP idea for change focusing in enhancing mental health access in rural and remote areas for underserved minority and vulnerable populations like those with mobility issues due to age and disabilities. The presentation demonstrates that through such technologies, healthcare facilities can enhance care delivery and meet diverse patient needs, especially the underserved populations, and reduce stigmatization.
The organization is a diverse mental health center in rural part of the United States and caters to diverse patient populations. The organizational culture focuses on enhanced care delivery through training and equipping nurses with relevant skills to deliver quality care. Readiness for change comprise a learning and change belief among employees that such interventions lead to better patient outcomes and quality of care. Readiness for change indicates a positive and learning mindset among employees focused on integrating the best practices to attain quality care outcomes (Melnyk et al., 2022). Readiness also shows the level of mental, psychological, and physical preparedness among employees to implement change using appropriate change models and leveraging organizational culture. Employees in tha facility are committed and loyal to the setting, highly motivated and profession. Because of its status, the facility embraces learning, change, and implementing new strategies to care like value-based care (Planey et al., 2022). As such, the organization is ready for change through new interventions to improve access to mental health care services.
The current issue or opportunity for change is limited access to mental health care services for individuals in rural and remote locations. Many individuals and families suffer from lack of access to mental health services leading to health disparities and increased stigmatization. Close to 5) million Americans suffer or will suffer from a mental illness (Modi et al., 2022). Further, Mental Health America (MHA) (2023) observes that even those with health insurance lack appropriate access leading to poor outcomes like suicide and serious mental challenges. As such, the problem is huge and requires organizations to train their employees to leverage better tools to address it. The proposed EBP will focus on enhancing access to mental health services and its scope will be within and outside the mental health facility that will provide telehealth to mental health patients.
The stakeholders will include organizational managers and leaders, nurses and other healthcare workers, patients, and their families as well as the community. These stakeholders will work collaboratively to implement the proposed EBP idea. The risks associated with change during the EBP implementation will include resistance to change, limited resources and support from the organization, and insufficient knowledge on implementation among nurses (Melnyk et al., 2022).
Limited access to mental healthcare services reduces quality of life for individuals and populations with mental health issues. Disparities in access to mental health persist with those in remote and rural locations and people living with disabilities being the most affected. The underserved population in rural and remote locations and those with mobility challenges require better access to these services (Melnyk et al., 2022). As such, the proposed EBP idea for change is integrating healthcare technologies like telehealth to improve access to mental health services. The proposed EBP is based on the EBP approach as it is supported by existing research evident based on the formulated PICOT question. Healthcare technologies like telehealth and telemedicine offer a fundamental change approach to mental health access for underserved population (Green et al., 2020). The proposed idea shows that telehealth and other innovative healthcare technologies can help reduce the current disparities for underserved population in rural areas and those with disabilities.
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