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.

This assignment will be at least 1300 words or more

This week you will reflect upon global issues in healthcare to answer the following questions:

• Briefly define the Sustainable Development Goals.
• How can you do your part upholding the Sustainable Development Goals?  
• Reflect on your future responsibilities involving ethical norms in health care.

Describe your vision of your role as an APN

1. Please introduce yourself and tell me why you decided to pursue and Advanced Practice major?
2. What is the role of the advanced practice nurse?
3. What is the evidence suggesting regarding the role of FNPs in primary care?
4. What do you think Family Nurse Practitioners could do differently to improve patient outcomes? Is EBP the answer? Give specific examples.
5. What do you think are the Skills & Personality Traits to be a  Successful Nurse Practitioner?
6. See Rubric

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment. 

The purpose of this assignment is to assess leadership styles, traits, and practices as a nursing professional, establish the importance of effective interprofessional communication as a leader in nursing, and to explore the role of servant leadership in nursing practice.

Share with your group about specific leadership styles, traits and qualities, so you can become familiar with how you are similar and different from your peers when it comes to being a leader.

Review the servant leadership. Using what you have learned about the tenets of servant leadership and traits and practices of successful leaders, create four slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding slide showing name, course study and references). Add speaker notes to each slide

Include the following in your presentation:

1. Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.

2. Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between group members’ strengths and weaknesses.

3. Discuss what leadership traits and styles are necessary to be an effective communicator. Explain the importance of leaders adapting communication approaches when working interprofessionally (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).

You are required to cite three sources to complete this assignment and the sources must be published within the last 5 years. 

1) **********minimum 5 full pages ( not words)**************************** (cover or reference page not included) 

2)¨**********APA norms  ( All paragraphs need to be cited properly. All responses must be in a narrative format and each paragraph must have at least 4 sentences)

3)********** It will be verified by Turnitin and SafeAssign 

4) **********References from the last 5 years  

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INSTRUCTIONS (Required: these pages must be included in the references and cited in the text):

1. Go to http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx and review the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Pay close attention to the objectives, goals, and indicators.

2. Go to: https://www.cdc.gov/outbreaks/index.html and identify 3 community infectious outbreaks:   Chlamydia,   Gonorrhea  and   Syphilis.

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1) Using your city (Miami) or county ( Miami dade) public health department or the CDC, choose 3 population or community based problems such as disease ( Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis ).

2) From the topics outlined in the website prepare an analysis discussing how these 3 conditions, 

  a) affect your community 

  b) how they were identified and a plan of action to contained them base on healthy people 2020.

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Must include the zip code of the city (Miami) or county  (Miami dade) chosen