This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing a pertinent healthcare issue. Students are asked to select a national healthcare issue/stressor, review research addressing change strategies by healthcare organizations, and write a 3-4 page white paper to organizational leadership about the issue. The paper should describe the issue's impact, summarize strategies from research, and explain how strategies could impact the organization positively and negatively.

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Prepare:Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and
reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study. Walden Discussion:
Pertinent Healthcare Issue AnalysisReflect 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):Assignment: Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare IssueThe 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

2. 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. Walden
Discussion: Pertinent Healthcare Issue AnalysisLooking 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. Required MediaLaureate Education (Producer).
(2015). Learning ResourcesNote: To access this week’s required library resources, please
click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your
Syllabus. Required ReadingsMarshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership
in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY:
Springer. Chapter 2, “Understanding Contexts for Transformational Leadership: Complexity,
Change, and Strategic Planning” (pp. 37–62)Chapter 3, “Current Challenges in Complex
Health Care Organizations: The Triple Aim” (pp. 63–86)Read any TWO of the following
(plus TWO additional readings on your selected issue): Auerbach, D. I., Staiger, D. O., &
Buerhaus, P. I. (2018). Growing ranks of advanced practice clinicians—Implications for the
physician workforce. New England Journal of Medicine, 378(25), 2358–2360.
doi:10.1056/NEJMp1801869 Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library
databases. Gerardi, T., Farmer, P., & Hoffman, B. (2018). Moving closer to the 2020 BSN-
prepared workforce goal. American Journal of Nursing, 118(2), 43–45.
doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000530244.15217.aa Note: You will access this article from the
Walden Library databases. Jacobs, B., McGovern, J., Heinmiller, J., & Drenkard, K. (2018).
Engaging employees in well-being: Moving from the Triple Aim to the Quadruple Aim.
Nursing Administration Quarterly, 42(3), 231–245.
doi:10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000303 Note: You will access this article from the Walden
Library databases. Norful, A. A., de Jacq, K., Carlino, R., & Poghosyan, L. (2018). Nurse
practitioner–physician comanagement: A theoretical model to alleviate primary care strain.
Annals of Family Medicine, 16(3), 250–256. doi:10.1370/afm.2230 Note: You will access
this article from the Walden Library databases. Palumbo, M., Rambur, B., & Hart, V. (2017).
Is health care payment reform impacting nurses’ work settings, roles, and education
preparation? Journal of Professional Nursing, 33(6), 400–404.
doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.11.005 Note: You will access this article from the Walden
Library databases. Park, B., Gold, S. B., Bazemore, A., & Liaw, W. (2018). How evolving
United States payment models influence primary care and its impact on the Quadruple Aim.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 31(4), 588–604.

3. doi:10.3122/jabfm.2018.04.170388 Note: You will access this article from the Walden
Library databases. Pittman, P., & Scully-Russ, E. (2016). Workforce planning and
development in times of delivery system transformation. Human Resources for Health,
14(56), 1–15. doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0154-3. Retrieved from https://human-resources-
health.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12960-016-0154-3 Poghosyan, L., Norful,
A., & Laugesen, M. (2018). Removing restrictions on nurse practitioners’ scope of practice in
New York state: Physicians’ and nurse practitioners’ perspectives. Journal of the American
Association of Nurse Practitioners, 30(6), 354–360.
doi:10.1097/JXX.0000000000000040 Note: You will access this article from the Walden
Library databases. Ricketts, T., & Fraher, E. (2013). Reconfiguring health workforce policy
so that education, training, and actual delivery of care are closely connected. Health Affairs,
32(11), 1874–1880. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0531Note: You will access this article from
the Walden Library databases. THE INFORMATION BELOW IS TO SHELD LIGHT ON WHAT
I DID IN PART 1. OF THIS ASSIGNMENT.IT WILL HELP YOU TO COMPLETE THE
ASSIGNMENT ABOVE.:If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most
significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating
costs? Regulation? Technology disruption?These and many other topics are worthy of
discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and
in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or
outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.In this Discussion, you examine a
national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You
also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.To Prepare: Review the
Resources and select one current national healthcare issue/stressor to focus on.Reflect on
the current national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and think about how this
issue/stressor may be addressed in your work setting.My Discussion:According to Rege
(2018), one of the top healthcare issues confronting the nation has to deal with the internet
of things (IoT), which refers to medical devices and applications that connect healthcare IT
systems through online computer networks. These systems can do numerous tasks like
tracking vital signs, body systems, and sleep. Naturally, the sphere of IoT falls under the
umbrella of technological innovation, which is going to be ever more prominent in
healthcare facilities throughout the nation. But with more facilities implementing the latest
in technological tools, the more it will become necessary to bring staff, especially nurses
(the primary caretakers) up to speed on these tools.Within this realm of the IoT, I see the
move to standardized language as crucial to uniformity and universal understanding. After
all, if we are going to have computers manage more and more of our day-to-day operations,
then we should ensure that nurses and doctors all over the country are using the same
standards in electronic record keeping and, in the storage and retrieval of digitized patient
information. Standardized language systems are facilitated by expert nurses who input
information about current practices. As a result, adherence to set guidelines can be
evaluated across health care facilities.Consider an example. Rutherford (2008)
demonstrated the role of a standardized language to ensure compliance with nursing
guidelines through the example of fetal monitoring, whereby nurses used standardized
terminologies to provide information regarding fetal heart rate. Based on the requirements

4. of standardized language systems, nurses must ensure the measurement of fetal and not
maternal heart rate. Nurses’ adherence to common guidelines through a standardized
language, therefore, would enable observance of standards of care and the improvement of
nursing competency.But despite the advantages of technological innovations, there are
challenges to implementing such innovations as standardized nursing terminologies, among
which would be resistance by staffers to adopt the new tools. Nurses are stressed enough at
work. To put added pressure on them to learn new and sometimes complex technologies
might only push the stress factor to the overload position. For one, Thede and Schwiran
(2011) conducted a study to gauge the attitudes of nurses in informatics, specifically the use
of standardized terminologies. What this author discovered was that most nurses had
limited knowledge and usage of standardized language at the workplace.Challenges like this
have affected my workplace as well. Fortunately, the stakeholders are very involved in staff
development, and we have weekly training meetings whenever new technology or tools are
brought on board. Employees can then get additional training as needed. Without such
support, my facility would be missing out on the wonderful opportunity of leveraging new
innovations in healthcare. The good news is that I belong to an outfit that will not let its
nurses and other employees take on a “sink or swim” attitude, but rather promotes and
supports all its workers. Walden Discussion: Pertinent Healthcare Issue
AnalysisReferencesRege, A. (2018). These are the 8 most disruptive issues in healthcare.
Becker’s Hospital Review. Retrieved from
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management- administration/these-
are-the-8-most-disruptive-issues-in-healthcare.htmlRutherford, M. (2008). Standardized
nursing language: What does it mean for nursing practice? The Online Journal of
Issues in Nursing, 13(1). doi: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol13No01PPT0 Walden Discussion: Pertinent
Healthcare Issue Analysis