Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues
Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.
For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?
In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue.
To Prepare:
- Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1.
- Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.
By Day 3 of Week 3
Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.
By Day 6 of Week 3
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by providing additional thoughts about competing needs that may impact your colleagues’ selected issues, or additional ideas for applying policy to address the impacts described.
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Solution:
One of the main healthcare issues is the shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) at all healthcare from local, state, to national levels. The adverse consequences of RN shortage are increased working hours for the current nurses. This results in an increase in occupational stress, burnout, fatigue, reduction in nurse performance, productivity, and job satisfaction which all subsequently result in a reduction in patient care quality (Gerardi, Farmer, & Hoffman, 2018). Despite the many efforts that have been put in place to address the issue of RN shortages and its consequences, the competing needs in the nursing workforce, resources, and patients continue to strain the interventions put in place to address the shortage.
The need to address RN shortage by increasing the number of nurses in healthcare leads to the increase in nursing education resources such as development and establishment of nursing schools and faculties, classrooms, preceptors, and practicum sites) and healthcare workforce…Please click the icon below to purchase full answer at only $5