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.

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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.

ADDITIONAL INFO 

Developing Organizational Policies and Practices in Health

Introduction

Health policies and procedures are important for any organization to develop. They help to guide the way that your organization functions and provide a framework for how you will run your business. Policies can also provide guidelines for how employees should behave, which can make everyone happier in the long run.

Managing and developing health policies and practices

Managing and developing health policies and practices

Managing organizational policies and practices in the context of the organization’s mission, values, culture, history, structure and environment.

Developing organizational policy

Developing organizational policy

Organizational policies and practices are the means by which an organization governs itself. Organizational policies are written instructions that outline how the organization should operate in order to achieve its goals. The most common type of policy is a set of rules or guidelines for employees to follow, but there may also be policies governing employee conduct (e.g., confidentiality), organizational structure (e.g., corporate governance), and financial matters (e..g., budgeting).

Organizational procedures are procedures required by laws or regulations; they usually require specific steps carried out by workers at various levels within an organization’s hierarchy when carrying out their daily tasks

Policies and procedures

Policies and procedures are important for all organizations. They help to ensure that everyone is clear about what is expected of them, and they can reduce the risk of litigation.

Policies are documents that provide guidance on how staff should perform their jobs or respond in particular circumstances. They may also include guidelines on how to deal with specific issues that arise during an organization’s operations (for example, when dealing with customers). Policies should clearly outline who has responsibility for implementing a policy; these individuals need to be identified so that everyone knows who has access to relevant information about it, including its content and format (see below).

Conclusion

In the next step, we will go over some of the key points that you need to consider when developing health policies and practices.