Module 7: Optimizing Health Systems in LTC
186 7.6.5 Corporate Partnerships
Nurse practitioner employment in LTC may be through private organizations or via public funding. Challenges persists for LTC homes to meet current and new standards with existing funding. Canadian jurisdictions have various quality improvement requirements for LTC licensees.
Partnership is key to overcoming challenges in the LTC sector, irrespective if the LTC is public or private. Quality indicators, accountability and risk management will drive quality improvement for clinical excellence for the LTC organization.
Quality health care can be achieved through working partnerships. Type of partnerships include:
- Networking
- Coordinating
- Cooperating
- Collaborating
Are you a partner or a team member?
- Partner: bring to the table what they currently offer
- Team member: willing to change what they bring to the table
Partnership and the NP Role:
- Networking across sectors
- Multidisciplinary team, and enhancements of roles to improve quality of care
- Innovation and research as a form of quality improvement
- Strategic thinking to leverage partnerships for new models of care, funding and health outcomes
- Creation of pathways through partnership in an integrated fashion (to and from LTC and acute care)
- Advocacy for residents, LTC sector and staff
- Knowledge translation to nursing, leadership and clinicians in LTC
