Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly.

Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice.

Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this Assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began work on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within your organization.

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.
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Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research the causes of coronary artery disease. On the basis of your research,distinguish between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ forms of this sterol.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research the causes of coronary artery disease. On the basis of your research, respond to the following:

  • State the chemical composition of the sterol present in high levels in most people who belong to the high-risk group.
  • Distinguish between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ forms of this sterol.
  • Explain the function of the good form of this sterol in the body.
  • List four different foods that are sources of the bad form.

Discussion Question 2

If glucose levels of a patient are high, respond to the following:

  • State the results that a Benedict’s test would indicate (specify the solution color).
  • State the composition and the properties of the ketohexose derived from fruit jam.
  • Describe the manner in which ketohexose acts as a reducing sugar in the test.

Discuss these students in terms of virtue ethics. Do these students have integrity?

Two nursing students cheated on several assignments. Although the evidence is irrefutable, both students deny cheating. Discuss these students in terms of virtue ethics. Do these students have integrity? Do these students have the character to become good nurses? Should the instructor allow them another chance?

Identify the qualities of a successful leader and compare them to your own leadership characteristics.

Develop a professional response to the supervisor using the template provided. The letter will have two main components:

  1. Identify the qualities of a successful leader and compare them to your own leadership characteristics.
  2. Make recommendations on how to lead and foster teamwork.

What is Franklin Caldwell’s internal conflict: his battle with his mental illness and/or his being forced to choose between his son, Graham, and his fire?

When analyzing the characters, you should consider the following. What is Franklin Caldwell’s internal conflict: his battle with his mental illness and/or his being forced to choose between his son, Graham, and his fire? What are Franklin’s flaws (i.e. his refusal to kill his fire with medication)? Does Graham have any flaws? Does Franklin have any strengths? In fact, is his fire the source of his strength (i.e. creativity)? What does Franklin’s door symbolize? Does Franklin have an epiphany, or does his denial over his psychological condition prevent him from having one? What is Franklin going to do after he leaves Graham? In other words, is Franklin doomed? Will he ever overcome his flaw(s)? Ultimately, how do these aspects of the character help create a larger point or message?