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NURS 6053 Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper
NURS 6053 Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper
Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
The need for competition arises in any organization as employees seek to achieve their goals and leaders seek to achieve company goals. As a leader, successfully managing these goals requires setting priorities and allocating resources accordingly.
In a healthcare setting, the needs for staff, resources, and patients are often at odds with each other. Mandating overtime, implementing staffing rates, using unlicensed support staff, and employers cutting educational benefits are examples of practices that can lead to conflicts of need.
Leaders can contribute to both problems and solutions through policies, actions, and inactions. In this assignment, you will continue to develop the white paper you started working on in Module 1 by meeting the competitive needs of 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): Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper
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.
By Day 7 of Week 3
Submit your revised paper.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Week 3 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
- Click the Week 3 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
- Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open. Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper
- If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
- Click on the Submit button to complete your submission. Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper
Grading Criteria
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Submit your Week 3 Assignment draft and review the originality report.
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Learning Resources
Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper Required Readings
Note: Review all, with special attention to “Provision 6” (pp. 23–26).
Walden University Week 3 Organizational Policies and Practices Paper