Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Complete a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization with which you are familiar, in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue in (Assessment 1- Inadequate Staffing in Healthcare).
Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Format
- and length and for supporting evidence.
Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
- Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your previous assessment.
- Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
- Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).
- Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
- For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.
- Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.
- Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
- Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.
- Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Additional Requirements
- Length of Submission: 3–5 double-spaced pages.
- Number of References: Cite at least four sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
- APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the current APA style.