Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues
Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues
Question Description
Discussion: Review of Current Healthcare Issues
If you asked ten people what they thought was the most important issue facing healthcare today, you might get ten different answers. Costs increasing? Regulation? What about technological disruption?
These, and many other topics, are debatable. Not surprisingly, much has been said about these topics in research, within the profession, and in the media. There is no shortage of changes to be made, whether they are related to finance, quality, workload, or outcomes.
In this Discussion, you will look at a national healthcare issue and consider how it may affect your workplace. You also examine how your organization has dealt with this problem.
To Get Ready:
Examine the Resources and choose one current national healthcare issue/stressor to concentrate on.
Consider the current national healthcare issue/stressor you chose, and consider how it might be addressed in your workplace.
Post a description of the national healthcare issue/stressor you chose for analysis, as well as an explanation of how the healthcare issue/stressor may affect your work environment. Then, describe how your health system’s work setting responded to the healthcare issue/stressor, including any changes that were implemented. Provide specifics and examples.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.