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The Health Workforce Health Policy & Social Issues University of North Alabama

Changes to scope-of-practice regulations are rules under. Many of the regulations and rules in place are frustrating for medical workers today. The process of change towards the practice might inspire the healthcare systems to work hard towards at achieving employee shortage problems. However, healthcare organizations are scared of such changes since they fear the move will lower the appealing rewards for medical professionals who are working in the institutions (Knickman & Kovner, 2015). The facilities also think that the changes would not work since they are working in a new mechanism which makes sure that there is the provision of practical benefits to healthcare workers and institutions. Similarly, the organizations would not be capable of managing high-quality studies and training for healthcare employees since that will require a lot of money to be spent. (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, & Shalala, 2011). Most of them would not advocate for the expenditure due to reduced income level among workers. States need to come forward to take part in the adjustment of the scope-of-practice regulations since they can guarantee assistance to the healthcare institutions through different explored routes. For instance, they can act by permitting experts to get knowledge, experience, skills, and training in the state organized centers to offer the maximum amount of services to the healthcare institutions (Reagan & Salsberry, 2013). These actions by the individual states are ways of minimizing their cost through training professionals. Such changes on the scope-ofpractice regulations being used to help in alleviating health care employee shortages are not justifiable since most of the healthcare organizations are scared of the impact and consequences of the process. As a result, the scope-of-practice regulations must evolve to make sure that safe and economic health care services are delivered. As there are many advantages to electronic communication and telemedicine solutions within health care, they have their own set of disadvantages as well. A few of those risk include: technology failures and technology dependencies. Since telemedicine solutions are completely technology based, probability of facing a technology failure is higher. Overall, technology automates many processes that are in place. When they fail, it becomes challenging for users to adapt to backup situations. Also, there is only so much a physical can diagnose without properly assessing a patient. Not physically laying eyes and hands on a patient can leave room for many medical errors to be made. Also, telemedicine will require a lot of IT training to ensure the physicians can properly use the programs (McLean, Sheikh, Cresswell, Nurmatov, Mukherjee, Hemmi, & Pagliari).

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