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HCS/455: Health Care Policy: The Past And The Future




Wk 5 - Future Policy Issue


Wk 5 - Future Policy Issue













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  1. Research and select an emerging health care issue. This can include but is not limited to the following:



    • Opioid crisis

    • Shortages of healthcare professionals

    • Medicare or Social Security funding shortfalls

    • Cost of healthcare

    • A specific disparity in a population group

    • Growing rates of chronic health conditions

    • Cybersecurity issues

    • Healthcare resources for our aging population

    • Suicide rates in children and teens







    Using the information you’ve learned in the course,
    discuss how you would design a policy for the health care issue you selected. Remember to take into consideration the various aspects of the policy development cycle and level of implementation (federal, state, or local).






    Respond: use 100-200 words to respond to each of the following prompts:




    1. Why is this issue important?


    2. List one possible policy action (or possible solution) that could help address this issue.

      Make sure your solution is specific.


      "Take steps to lower healthcare cost" is not specific. "Mandate pricing transparency for all hospitals" is specific.


    3. Include
      two
      possible advantages and
      two
      possible disadvantages of the policy action.



    4. What level of government (federal or state, or possibly local) would primarily be responsible for implementation?
      Which agency or agencies would likely help implement?


    5. How would you propose the policy be evaluated?







    Cite at least 2 reputable references
    (you will likely need more). Reputable references include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, a textbook, or other sources of similar quality.






    Format your responses and references according to APA guidelines.






    Submit your assignment.
















Answered 1 days AfterSep 11, 2022

Answer To: HCS/455: Health Care Policy: The Past And The Future Wk 5 -...

Dr. Sulabh answered on Sep 12 2022
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HEALTHCARE ISSUE 1
Title: Scarcity of healthcare workers in the hospitals in USA.
Introduction
There is a tremendous lac
k of manpower in the USA in the field of nursing, and healthcare and also a lack of the availability of physicians in various hospitals. The requirement for nurses in various hospitals is increasing day by day in various hospitals in the USA. The major factors causing a lack of nursing staff in the hospitals are tremendous stress, work pressure, and humiliation faced while working. There is a need to spread awareness among nurses about the significance of attaining the skills, precision, and knowledge related to the nursing field while taking care of patients (Haddad et al., 2022). Further, there is a need to bring in a new workforce of potential nursing healthcare members as many nurses are old in the hospitals and above the age of 50 years (Haddad et al., 2022).
Theory
           The area of concern is the patient to a nurse number in a hospital. In many hospitals in the USA, there are more patients and a lesser number of nurses leading to stress and anxiety among the nurses. Further, the increasing work pressure causes many nurses to withdraw from their nursing careers (Haddad et al., 2022). Thus there should be an appropriate ratio of the nurses and the patients in a hospital setting. 
The legislation (federal) should make it mandatory that every hospital should have a good and required number of nurse healthcare staff to support the needs and the requirements of the patients. Taking it (policy implementation) into account the legislation senate in the USA has passed the Healthcare workforce bill to fill the vacant slot of the healthcare staff in clinical settings and hospitals in the USA (Lewis PC, 2021). The issue of adjusting the ratio of the patients with the healthcare nurses is important to fit the gap and prevent the death of the patients prematurely in a hospital.
           American Hospital Association (AHA) is taking up significant measures to increase the workforce of healthcare workers in hospitals during times of emergency, especially during the COVID-19 epidemic across the world. There is a serious scarcity of nursing faculty in various institutions due to a shortage of...
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