Need Analysis for Change
Nurses strive to provide care that promote outcomes such as safety, quality, and efficiency in their practice. Often, they translate evidence-based interventions into practice with the aim of aligning care interventions with the needs and expectations of their patients. However, organizational issues such as shortage of nurses threaten the realization of these outcomes. Therefore, this paper builds on the previous projects by examining further the issue of nursing shortage and the need for addressing it in healthcare.
Summary of the Chosen Economic Issue and Its Impact
The selected issue for the project is inadequate staffing among nurses. According to the data by World Health Statistics Report, America has 3.9 million of the 29 million nurses globally. Despite this, it experienced an acute shortage of more than one million nurses by 2020. The statistics by the American Nurses Association show that more than 275000 nurses will be needed from 2020 to 2030 to fill the current gap in healthcare workforce. The issues of concern contributing to the worsening shortage of nurses in America include aging population, high turnover rates, lack of nursing educators, and inequitable workforce distribution (Haddad et al., 2022). Nursing shortage have negative impacts on healthcare, patients, and colleagues. First, it increases nurses’ workload, which causes burnout, occupational stress, low job satisfaction, and high turnover rates among nurses. Nursing shortage also lowers the quality of care due to increased cases of safety issues such as medical errors in the care process. Communities suffer from poor quality of care, increased safety issues, and disease burden among the population. Nursing shortage also increases costs incurred by healthcare organizations in hiring, training, and struggling to retain their staff (Haryanto, 2019; Marć et al., 2019). Despite the pervasiveness in nursing shortage, minimal interventions have been adopted in my practice site to address the issue. In addition, nurses have not explored evidence-based interventions that can be used to improve retention rates among them. Consequently, it is crucial to implement measures that will address the issue for optimum outcomes in healthcare.
Assessment 2 Instructions
Complete a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization with which you are familiar, in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organization’s outcomes. In this assessment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in the previous assessment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.
Background and Context
As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organization’s outcomes. In this assessment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in the previous assessment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.
Instructions
Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:
Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your previous assessment.
Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).
Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.
Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.
Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Additional Requirements
Length of Submission: 3–5 double-spaced pages.
Number of References: Cite at least four sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the current APA style.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Needs Analysis for Change Scoring Guide
CriteriaNon-performanceBasicProficientDistinguishedSummarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.Does not provide any type of summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community. Notes the rationale for pursing the issue, as well as a gap contributing to it.Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.Does not identify any disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue.Identifies disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue. However, does not relate the disparities to any socioeconomic or diversity considerations.Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations. Supports assertion by using at least one piece of evidence (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resource).Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.Does not identify the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources.Identifies the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources, but the relevance to regarding the need to address the chosen issue is unclear or misaligned.Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans. Cites at least four relevant evidence-based or scholarly sources to support explanation.Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.Does not identify possible outcomes and opportunities of growth.Identifies possible outcomes and opportunities of growth, but their relationship to the proposed change or implementation plan is unclear.Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan. Notes the specific economic benefits for patients and the organization.Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.Does not convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Attempts to apply APA style and formatting.Conveys clear purpose, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting. Notes the specific economic benefits for patients and the organization.
