Leadership and Management

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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.

***PLEASE REFER TO HEALTH ISSUE/STRESSOR BELOW****

THIS IS THE PAPER I COMPLETED, PLEASE USE AS A MODEL

Healthcare Issues/Stressors

 

            As the population is rising in chronic care management needs, it is essential to have adequate healthcare workers that are readily accessible to meet the increased demand. To improve quality and reduce inequities, it is critical that healthcare organizations make conscientious efforts to maintain sufficient staffing to prevent burnouts and retain their healthcare employees. According to the World Health Organization, there will be a demand for an additional 40 million healthcare essential workers by 2030. This is due to the increase in the average life expectancy and the rising trend of lifestyle diseases across the world. Also, the uses of national surveys based on demographics have further confirmed the increase demand.

           

Impacts of the shortage of workers on healthcare organization are a significant issue that needs to be addressed or it will severely damage our healthcare system. Some direct adverse affects are as followed: high staff turnovers, lack of job satisfaction, feelings of inadequacy, and burnouts. All are factors, which contribute to shortage. Many registered nurses believe the nursing shortage presents major problems for the quality of their work life, the quality of patient care and the amount of individual time nurses can spend with patients. This is also a catalyst for increased stress. Looking to the future, these stressors will lead to the decrease in patient care quality and cause nurses to leave the profession.

           

To elevate this rising issue, Healthcare organizations should look to transforming the work environment of nurses. The shortage of hospital nurses are linked to unrealistic nurse workloads. As reported by the World health Organization (WHO), Nursing Now and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) (2020) to meet the increased demand, it is recommended an 8% increase in the number of nursing graduates each year up to 2030 as well as expansion of advanced nurse practice and nurse-led units, and more nursing positions funded globally and strong retention measures. By addressing problems in management practices, employee staffing, high patient-to-nurse ratios, work and workspace design will decrease the odds of job dissatisfaction. Creating an incentivizing program for healthcare workers may also have positive outcomes to the issue.  

 

References

 

Global shortfall of 5.9 million nurses. (2020). World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery, 28(4), 12.

 

Merga, H and Fufa, T. 2019. Impacts of Working Environment and Benefits Packages on the Health Professionals’ Job Satisfaction in Selected Public Health Facilities in Eastern Ethiopia: Using Principal Component Analysis.” BMC Health Services Research 19 (1): 494. doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4317-5.

 

World Health Organization appeals for investment in the strengthening of the global health workforce to accomplish financial growth. (2017). Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 10(6), 1411–1412. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.4103/1755-6783.222692