Ambulatory clinics are playing a
vital role in present modern health care delivery system.
Ambulatory care clinic is a health care facility that is primarily
focused on out patient care. Ambulatory care is also called out
patient care. It is defined as the medical care provided to the
patient on out patient basis, which including diagnosis,
observation, consultation, treatment, intervention and
rehabilitation services. And this care can include advance medical
technology and procedures that provided out side the hospital.
Now a days many hospital are
providing the ambulatory care for the patients who can be treated
without admitting in the hospital. for example like Child with
simple fracture, some type of eye care etc. not need
hospitalization for the patients. Patients prefer the ambulatory
care clinics, because most of them want to avoid spending time in
hospital. And hospitals also encourage the ambulatory clinic system
to ensure that medical care facility for the critically ill
patients.
MEMBERS OF AMBULATORY CLINIC
CARE
1. Doctors
2. Nurses
3. Paramedical staffs
4. Medical technicians
ROLE OF AMBULATORY CARE
CLINIC
- Many medical and investigations and
treatments for acute and chronic illnesses and preventive health
care can be performed on the basis of ambulatory care.
- An Ambulatory care services
represents the most significant contributor to increasing hospital
expenditures and to the performance of health care delivery system
in most of the countries.
- These centers are help to evaluate
and treat the conditions that are not severe enough to require
treatment in hospital emergency department.
- An Ambulatory care clinics utilizes
a verity of telecommunication technologies during encounter to
assess, triage, and perform follow-up and surveillance of patient's
status and outcomes.
- In ambulatory care we are
performing the evidence based practice to ensure the quality care
to the patient.
- An ambulatory care center provides
critical medical services to incoming patients. They are an
essential part of the national medical system.
- An ambulatory care clinic maintain
the continuity of safe, quality and effective care for the patients
across the entire care continuum.
- These clinics helps to treat the
patients with chronic illness like asthma, cancer etc, and also can
perform the anti natal and postnatal checkups of pregnant
mothers.
- Care on this clinics are less
expensive than hospitalization so it is helpful to the low socio
economic status category.
- It can help to identify the disease
conditions and helps in referal of those cases which need more
quality care in higher centers. examples like Leukemia
- In these centers patients are
seeking more convenient access to health care services. Patients
prefer facilities that are geographically close and open after work
hours.
- Ambulatory care clinics are
attempting to manage populations health. It allows providers like
hospital health systems to more proactively manage chronic
conditions, prevent serious illness and improve overall health of
the population.
- Integration of ambulatory
facilities is necessary for hospitals and health system to manage
populations health
- Connecting outpatients sites
through electronic medical records and aligning incentives can help
providers coordinates services to best to keep the Patein
healthy.
- It helps to balancing the inpatient
and outpatient care by improving the community's overall health,
preventing serious illness and injuries that require hospital
care.
ROLE OF AMBULATORY CLINIC
NURSE
Some of the role of ambulatory
clinic nurse are;
- Ambulatory care nurse act as a
partners and advisors for patients and families to optimally manage
their health care.
- Ambulatory care nurse facilitates
continuity of care using the nursing process, multidisciplinary
approach, and coordination of appropriate health care
services.
- Ambulatory care nurse are
knowledgeable about and provide leadership in the clinical and
managerial operations of the organization.
- Ambulatory care nurse design,
administer and evaluate nursing services in the organization.
- Ambulatory care nurses apply the
provision of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for
Nurses to their own professional obligations.
- Ambulatory care nurse should update
and their knowledge on clinical, professional roles and
responsibilities.