NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Available Community Resources

COPD-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a chronic illness that impacts many people globally. Patient’s quality of life can be enhanced with assistance from healthcare workers. 

American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR)

This organization provides important resources that can assist patients in having the finest and most effective interventions. Pulmonary recovery programs are developed to assist COPD patients to enhance their life quality and well-being. These programs have education, awareness, and counseling regarding disease and its management. Healthcare organizations and community associations give exercise and nutritional programs to patients with COPD (Xiang et al., 2022).

COPD Foundation

Emotional and social assistance to the patients by the healthcare providers can be ensured by COPD foundation groups. Assistance groups can give a protective and helping environment to the patients for sharing their experiences, connecting, and inquiring about the disease so that others can understand their condition. COPD assistance groups can be found in community centers, healthcare clinics, hospitals, or online resources (Hurst et al., 2020).

COPD- Assisted Home Health and Hospice

Home healthcare facilities are also needed to give continuous care to the patients such as highly abled nursing workers, training about oxygen support, medication handling system, assistance materials, financial help, and related COPD assistance. Patients can have home healthcare facilities by regional healthcare workers or by connecting with insurance managers. 

 Telehealth tool is another innovative service to help COPD patients digitally. Telehealth facilities can assist patients and healthcare workers in coordinating. It includes conference calls with healthcare workers, remote patient monitoring, and virtual educational repositories (Haleem et al., 2021).

Conclusion 

In the US, the fourth major cause of mortality is COPD. A preliminary care coordination design is established to determine the underlying factors of this problem and care coordination provision to COPD patients so that mortality rates can be decreased. Different effective approaches and community assistance programs can help patients to enhance their life quality and quit smoking which is a key reason for COPD.

References

Anderson, E., Soylemez Wiener, R., Resnick, K., Elwy, A. R., & Rinne, S. T. (2020). Care coordination for veterans with COPD: a positive deviance study. The American Journal of Managed Care, 26(2), 63–68. https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2020.42394 

Brooks, K., & Levy-Milne, R. (2022). Educating frontline health workers to support evidence-based management and treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A literature review. Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 58, 127–135. https://doi.org/10.29390/cjrt-2021-079