Vincent Maloba

 The Predicament of Healthcare Policy in California Author: Institution: Date: Down memory lane, wellness, and health maintenance was administered by women at home, added by the requisite inspections by medical doctors. Years proceeded with the establishment of colleges that specialized in Medicine training which catered for the provision of formal training and certification of medical practitioners. However, doctors began to be overwhelmed by their duties as their advancements grew, this started to bring in perils and jeopardized hygiene levels. With the growth in medicine came also came insurance pools with high professionalism. Nurses are known to care for persons who are at their most vulnerable health status; this constitutes the mentally challenged, children, the elderly, and also persons with disabilities. As DNP nurses in California are continuously striving to offer quality healthcare despite a significant number of ultimatums, they are becoming a model for the profession by mentoring others. Most are doing so by increasing awareness to the children, improving learning, and being an inspiration to the children undertaking a path to graduate school. The state of California is gradually toiling to increase the DNP nurses in a measure to counter aspects of correlation of high patient-to-nurse ratio as it poses a hazardous health risk and job burnout. Besides, the state is constantly advocating for consistent wages following market forces, as well as increasing the nursing school enrollments. Additional policies and initiatives to promote a resilient healthcare system also included the elimination of compulsory overtime by improving recruitment strategies of staff retention, improving workspace, and welcoming foreign nurses. Furthermore, wage and benefit improvement were also proposed in a bid to enhance intake in nursing schools to counter the shortage of nursing teachers. Following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic emergence, a lot has been revealed in general healthcare. It brought about huge risks for serious illnesses for persons with underlying conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. Doctors and nurses are experiencing a huge calamity as the pandemic is only helping to deteriorate them mentally and emotionally as they are toiling to cater to the patients, especially the most vulnerable. Tidings reveal that general healthcare in California facilities is under fatigue, anxiety, depression, and exasperation. Furthermore, reports have been emerging of local hospitals declining to allow nursing students in the normal clinical rotations in a measure to curb the spread of the virus, causing longer graduation delays for these students. The notable and fast-spreading rate is to a high degree contributing to a nursing shortfall to the general nation, this means that the state of California stands as one of the worst affected. Due to the anticipation of a further shortage of nurses, many students are advocating for their former rotation shifts to deliver clinical patronage in triage, distribution of facemasks as well as screening, if not treating the patients directly. Students undertaking health professional studies in California possess significant knowledge and training that would be very applicable in the current Coronavirus pandemic. Since the affordability and accessibility of basic healthcare and general practitioners are gradually declining, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) can be utilized in offering medical attention without the supervision of a physician because they are well placed to work for health institutions hence improving their services. Gradually, they are filling voids in primary care. Furthermore, they are always ready for challenges, self-empowered in health policies and overall evaluation, and utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) where needed. More roles and impacts of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to citizens are yet to be discovered.