Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues

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Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.

For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

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In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue. Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1.
  • Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

RESOURCES TO REVIEW

Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements (View Only for Members and Non-Members) (nursingworld.org)

Ethical Nursing Care Versus Cost Containment: Considerations to Enhance RN Practice (nursingworld.org)

Ethical Awareness: What It Is and Why It Matters (nursingworld.org) .Organizational Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues