Research Paper 

This paper consists of researching and completing a term paper dealing with an issue in cultural diversity and healthcare. There is a list of topics you can choose from or you can submit an original topic. Your paper should be in APA style .Grading rubrics for the research paper can be found at the end of this syllabus. 

Your research paper should have at least the following components: 

• · an introduction presenting your      topic, 
• · an overview of the structure of      the paper, 
• · an engaging and thought-provoking      thesis statement, 
• · a literature review of the      existing research, 
• · a minimum of five sources that are      peer-reviewed, or academic in nature, 
• · references and citations following      APA formatting, and 
• · key points summarized with smooth      transitions between section. 

You will often be given a task dealing with your career and sent on your way to “accomplish the job”. Just as in the real world, you must work toward excellence. The more original, the better the evaluation! Mediocracy will be rewarded as such by your instructor. 

Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly.

Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice.

Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this Assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began work on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within 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):

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.

Please zero plagiarism

Students much review the case study and answer all questions with a scholarly response using APA and include 2 scholarly references. Answer both case studies on the same document and upload 1 document to Moodle.

Case Studies will be uploaded to Moodle and put through TURN-It-In (anti-Plagiarism program)

Turn it in Score must be less than 50% or will not be accepted for credit, must be your own work and in your own words. You can resubmit, Final submission will be accepted if less than 50%. Copy paste from websites or textbooks will not be accepted or tolerated. Please see College Handbook with reference to Academic Misconduct Statement.

I need a positive argument  based in this discussion question. Respond to this argument in one or more of the following ways:

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.

Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.

Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.

Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Use references 

Living in the United States is seen as a privilege.  There are multiple countries that do not have access to the majority of things that we do here in America.  However, the United States is one of the few countries that have not industrialized the health care system.  The proper role of the government should be to provide everyone with quality health care.  Health care is one of the things in America that should not be seen as a privilege.  It should be seen as a right.  The biggest issue that I see currently is the economic concerns within the the country.  There is a constant battle between each political party on the price tag of the health care system.  However, Bernie Sanders came up with an incredible plan to ensure that all Americans have health care.  Medicare for All would be the plan that could insure ever American within adequate health care.  There are millions of dollars spent each year on health care.  Twenty-nine million Americans do not have health insurance and millions more are under-insured and cannot afford the high co-payments and deductibles (2018).  The U.S. spends approximately three trillion dollars on health care each year.  By reforming the health care systems and ensuring that patients are actually getting high quality health care, Bernie’s plan has been estimated to save the county over six trillion dollars within the next decade (2018).   

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a critically important step towards the goal of universal health care.  With the ACA, more than seventeen million Americans have gained health insurance (2018).  Having better and more affordable access to health insurance could ultimately improve the overall health of Americans.  There are millions of people that do not have insurance that desperately need it in order to have a better quality of life.  By taking the economic burden off of the citizens, each individual could live healthier and happier lives.  By introducing Medicare for All, millions of people will no longer have to chose between health care and basic necessities like food, shelter, and services that have been out of reach (2018).   That peace of mind could do wonders for the economy and health status of citizens of America.  

Reference

Medicare for All.  (2018, July).  Medicare for All:  Leaving No One Behind.  Retrieved from https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/