Assignment: Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue The Quadruple Aim provides broad categories of goals to pursue to maintain and improve healthcare. Within each goal are many issues that, if addressed successfully, may have a positive impact on outcomes. For example, healthcare leaders are being tasked to shift from an emphasis on disease management often provided in an acute care setting to health promotion and disease prevention delivered in primary care settings. Efforts in this area can have significant positive impacts by reducing the need for primary healthcare and by reducing the stress on the healthcare system. Changes in the industry only serve to stress what has always been true; namely, that the healthcare field has always faced significant challenges, and that goals to improve healthcare will always involve multiple stakeholders. This should not seem surprising given the circumstances. Indeed, when a growing population needs care, there are factors involved such as the demands of providing that care and the rising costs associated with healthcare. Generally, it is not surprising that the field of healthcare is an industry facing multifaceted issues that evolve over time. In this module’s Discussion, you reviewed some healthcare issues/stressors and selected one for further review. For this Assignment, you will consider in more detail the healthcare issue/stressor you selected. You will also review research that addresses the issue/stressor and write a white paper to your organization’s leadership that addresses the issue/stressor you selected. To Prepare: Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study. Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations to address your selected national healthcare issue/stressor. The Assignment (3-4 Pages): Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue Develop a 3- to 4-page paper, written to your organization’s leadership team, addressing your selected national healthcare issue/stressor and how it is impacting your work setting. Be sure to address the following: Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization). Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations. Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your organization both positively and negatively. Be specific and provide examples. Looking Ahead The paper you develop in Module 1 will be revisited and revised in Module 2. Review the Assignment instructions for Module 2 to prepare for your revised paper. ****Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study. This is the national healthcare issues/ stressors we selected for our study!!! Current Healthcare Issues According to Gerardi, Farmer, & Hoffman (2018), “the American Organization of Nurse Executives has been made to increase the proportion of nurses with a bachelor of science in nursing or higher degree to 80% by 2020.” Given this, hospitals across the nation are accepting the responsibilities of identifying and developing efficient strategies towards training and providing help for nurses to achieve a higher education in their workforce. Over the last few years, the hospital facility that I work in has practiced hiring higher educated nursing staff to attend patients as opposed to those who only obtain a high school diploma. There are flyers on many of the bulletins for those who have already been employed to be encouraged to achieve a higher degree program. For those who apply for the bachelor’s program, the facility reimburses nurses for some of their tuition costs so that they wouldn’t be discouraged to attend or drop out because of finances. There are also programs that nurses can attend if they have already graduated with an Associates degree, which is called the fast-track diploma. This program is offered for a 15-month term and has options for both RN and BSN programs. Given that patient population is becoming more diverse, it is imperative that nurses are knowledgeable on the topics concerning their patients outside of health. For instance, to gain a standard knowledge of cultural backgrounds, religious affiliations as it relates to health options, and ethnicity differences (Marzuki, Hassan, Wichaikhum, & Nantsupawat, 2012). Nurses must possess more skills, knowledge, and competencies to deal with the challenges that arise in their field because of how the way our world changes so quickly. Having incompetent nurses in the field can become detrimental to the healthcare facility as well as the patients who are being looked after (Marshall, E., & Broome, 2017). This is due to the poor quality of services given to patients, miscommunication, misguidance, and misunderstandings because the nurses aren’t caught up with the nursing world as it is today that a higher degree program can help them achieve. Having a demoted workforce and nurses not understanding the patient population as what it is today can prevent patients from receiving quality care, safety measures may be at stake, and untrained staff members means more likely mistakes could occur with medications, equipment operations, and so forth. References Gerardi, T., Farmer, P., & Hoffman, B. (2018). Moving closer to the 2020 BSN-prepared workforce goal. American Journal of Nursing, 118(2), 43–45. Marshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. Marzuki, M. A., Hassan, H., Wichaikhum, O., & Nantsupawat, R. (2012). Continuing nursing education: best-practice initiative in nursing practice environment. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 60, 450-455. Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. This is the feedback I received from my colleague in my discussion!!!! Heather Taylor RE: Discussion - Week 1 Lenick, You are spot on about the nursing shortages in the US. The consequences of having inadequate health care affect those providing care as well as those receiving it. Increased workload directly increases stress, errors and mortality rates for patients (Peate, 2020). Additional reasons for the nursing shortage include nurse burnout; career versus family with nurses leaving the workforce, unrealistic staffing ratios; continuously changing technology; and an increase in violence (HOUSH, 2019). The facility I formerly worked for, offered scholarship programs to nurses wishing to further their education. In exchange, the nurse signs a contract agreeing to stay with the facility for a minimum of five years. During that time, a percentage of the staff members check will be garnished to repay the scholarship. Many nurses are not aware of the fine print when they sign the contract. Not only are they locked into a job they may or may not be right for but also are subject to the same requirements as any other loan. The hospital advertises the opportunity as a scholarship but in fact it is a loan. Rather than help our nursing shortage, it has increased frustrations due to unanticipatedly aggressive repayment plans through garnishment. In short, the nurses who obtained the scholarship ended up leaving after their contracts were completed and the shortage continues. References: HOUSH, R. (2019). Projected Nursing Shortage “Critical” by 2030. ASBN Update, 23(2), 6. Peate, I. (2020). Overstretched and struggling. British Journal of Nursing, 29(3), 133. https://doi org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.3.133

Social media channels are designed to be engaging; however, these media are often used by public health organizations and practitioners as a means to disseminate mass information, rather than to engage audiences in meaningful interaction. Harnessing social media to best achieve public health outcomes is a topic of much discussion and study in the public health community.For this assignment, you will analyze public health communication via social media in your community. Follow a public health organization, local or national, on a social media channel (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) for at least 3 weeks. In a paper of 1,000-1,250 words, address the following: Describe the benefits/advantages and challenges/risks of using social media for public health communication. Describe the organization you followed and the social media channel you selected. What kind of information is shared on social media by the organization? To what degree does the organization engage with users/followers (e.g., responding to questions, engaging in conversation, hosting "chats" with experts, soliciting information)? What improvements or suggestions would you make to this organization regarding its social media engagement? Why? Use at least three scholarly sources to support your paper.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.