Developing organizational policies and practices
Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
To Prepare:
- Review the national healthcare issue/stressor you examined in your Assignment for Module 1, and review the analysis of the healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
- Identify and review two evidence-based scholarly resources that focus on proposed policies/practices to apply to your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
- Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post regarding competing needs.
The Assignment (4-5 pages):
Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
Add a section to the paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following:
- Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
- Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
- Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.
- Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.
- Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.
Last week paper submitted “the rising cost of health care”
This assignment should be based off of it. Thanks. Will upload references.
Required Readings
American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Silver Spring, MD: Author. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/
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Note: Review all, with special attention to “Provision 6” (pp. 23–26).
Kelly, P., & Porr, C. (2018). Ethical nursing care versus cost containment: Considerations to enhance RN practice. OJIN: Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(1), Manuscript 6. doi:10.3912/OJIN.
Vol23No01Man06. Retrieved from http://ojin.nursingworld.org/ MainMenuCategories/AN...
Milliken, A. (2018). Ethical awareness: What it is and why it matters. OJIN: Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(1), Manuscript 1. doi:10.3912/OJIN.
Vol23No01Man01. Retrieved from http://ojin.nursingworld.org/ MainMenuCategories/AN…
You may use other resources as deem fit.
Thanks.
This week topic/assignment is: “Organizational policies and practices to support healthcare issues”
Answer preview
The USA ranks as one of the countries with high expenditure in healthcare. As a result of the high costs of healthcare, there are many competing needs which need to be satisfied to ensure the delivery of quality care and the attainment of positive patient outcomes. For instance, hospitals have to ensure patients are accorded the best form of care and that they can be able to stay in hospitals when need such as readmission arises. However, the increasing lengths of patients’ stays and high frequency of patient readmissions are contributing o high healthcare costs. Therefore, this paper analyses these competing needs and recommends…
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