N 495 Health Assessment Module 8 Assignment
N 495 Health Assessment Module 8 Assignment
N 495 Health Assessment
Module 8 Assignment
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Start by reading and following these instructions:
Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.
Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.
Consider the course discussions so far and any insights gained from it.
Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources if needed, use APA style as required, and check your spelling.
Assignment:
Complete the Shadow Health Comprehensive Assessment. Submit your Lab Pass for the Shadow Health Comprehensive Assessment
You will complete the exercise above via ShadowHealth© assessment, you may attempt each exercise as often as you would like. Once you have achieved at least 80% for each exercise, please download and save the LabPass document, and upload the PDF document to the dropbox.
M8 Shadow Health Assignment UMBO – 2, 3
M8 Shadow Health Assignment PLG – 1, 7
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Health outcomes, at the organizational and national levels, depend on the practicality and productivity of health interventions. Central in health care economics is the efficiency of health interventions since it affects the overall nation’s health spending. In the past decade, health care spending has surged to $4.3 trillion in 2021 (CMS.gov, 2022). As a result, governments and stakeholders in the health industry should be aware of the issues hampering cost-effectiveness locally and nationally. The purpose of this paper is to identify a local health care economic issue, rationale, influence, and the gap contributing to the need to address it.
The Issue and Impacts on a Specific Population
Patients require adequate attention to receive comprehensive care. Unfortunately, inadequate staffing characterized by a nursing shortage is an issue of massive concern at all levels. Inadequate staffing implies a higher patient volume than the available workforce (Gaines, 2022). Impacts vary across populations. According to Waldrop and Gee (2022), the rural population is significantly affected by inadequate staffing, considering that rural settings account for two-thirds of the professional workforce shortage in primary care. Such a shortage expands the health gap between rural and urban populations and increases the health burden in rural areas.
Rationale for Choosing the Health Care Economics Issue
Inadequate staffing is a significant health economic issue that predicts health care management challenges if not adequately addressed. As Waldrop and Gee (2022) observed, the current U.S. health care system requires an additional 14,858 health care professionals to address the shortage across the country. The massive shortage implies a similar gap between the achieved and desirable health outcomes. Considering that rural people are significantly affected by this shortage, the problem of health disparities will persist as the shortage intensifies.
Impact on Work, Organization, Colleagues, and Community
Employee shortage significantly affects the nursing staff, workplaces, and communities. At a personal level, inadequate staffing increases the daily workload and is a leading cause of job dissatisfaction. Over time, it limits overall productivity. In the organization, inadequate staffing increases spending due to temporary staff hiring and implementing programs to help nurses overcome the detrimental effects of a workforce shortage. For instance, self-care programs to help nurses cope with burnout increase organizational expenses. To my colleagues, inadequate staffing causes nurse burnout, characterized by fatigue and emotional exhaustion (Shah et al., 2021). Its persistence reduces the work efficacy of nurses. At the community level, inadequate staffing hampers health care providers’ ability to address health inequities. The illness burden increases since patients do not get timely and sufficient care.
Gap Contributing to the Need to Address the Issue
Nurse turnover is the main gap that necessitates a prompt and practical response to inadequate staffing. It is a significant gap since nurse turnover, and staffing shortage have a bi-directional relationship. In this case, each influences the other. Marć et al. (2019) found that increasing rates of chronic illnesses due to aging are a leading cause of the nursing shortage. Failure to address this shortage will increase the overall illness burdens among individuals, health care organizations, and communities. Health care organizations will be overwhelmed, and their ability to provide competent care will dwindle over time.
Conclusion
Health care organizations should design cost-effective interventions to save costs and enhance efficiency. However, this critical goal can only be achieved if issues that increase health care spending are adequately addressed. Inadequate staffing is a significant health care economics issue that affects outcomes at all levels. Nurse turnover and an increase in chronic health conditions are the leading causes. Rural populations are unfairly affected by inadequate staffing due to the shortage of primary care providers in rural areas.
References
CMS.gov. (2022). Historical. https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nationalhealthaccountshistorical#:~:text=U.S.%20health%20care%20spending%20grew,For%20additional%20information%2C%20see%20below.
Gaines, K. (2022). What’s really behind the nursing shortage? 1,500 nurses share their stories. nurse.org. https://nurse.org/articles/nursing-shortage-study/
Marć, M., Bartosiewicz, A., Burzyńska, J., Chmiel, Z., & Januszewicz, P. (2019). A nursing shortage–a prospect of global and local policies. International Nursing Review, 66(1), 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12473
Shah, M. K., Gandrakota, N., Cimiotti, J. P., Ghose, N., Moore, M., & Ali, M. K. (2021). Prevalence of and factors associated with nurse burnout in the US. JAMA Network Open, 4(2), e2036469-e2036469. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.36469
Waldrop, T., & Gee, E. (2022). How states can expand health care access in rural communities. CAP. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-states-can-expand-health-care-access-in-rural-communities/
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.