Based on course readings, resources, and discussions, create your own theory based on your specific practice area. For example, Liken’s Theory of Nurse/Patient Connectedness for Individuals with a Diagnosis of Depression. 

Be sure to include definitions and descriptions of at least two key concepts that make up your theory. Describe the relationships between these concepts. For example “connectedness” and “depression.” 

What role does research play in the development and use of your theory in practice? 

Give a case example of how your concepts and theories would be used in a specific client situation in practice. What are the barriers to using your theory in practice? 

Develop a PowerPoint Presentation in regards to the issue of Advanced Practice.

1. Identify a current research problem related to advanced nursing practice that is of interest to you. Include WHY this is a problem. (Limit response to no more than 3 sentences). Develop a research question to provide information about the research problem.
2. Based on your research question, do you believe it will best be answered by a qualitative or quantitative study ? Support your decision as to why you believe the answers would best be provided by the type of study you have chosen.
3. Select a middle-range theory and identify the application of nursing theories to your research problem.
   Conduct a literature review.
4. Based on your literature review answer the following questions:
   • If qualitative,
     • Identify the purpose of the study.
     • Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.
     • Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
     • Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
     • Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.
     • Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
     • Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
     • Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.
     • Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria. 
     • Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.
     • Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing.

• If quantitative,
  • Identify the purpose and design of the study.
  • Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’ and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the study.
  • Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.  
  • Explain the sampling method and the recruitment strategy was used.
  • Discuss how the sample size was determined – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
  • Briefly, outline how the data was collected and identify any data collection instrument(s).
  • Define the terms of validity and reliability, and discuss how the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not addressed in this study and why this is important.
  • Outline how the data were analyzed.
  • Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement of the data described by each statistical test – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.
  • Briefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of the study.
  • Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an explanation of the term statistical significance and name the tests of statistical significance used in this study. 

Submission Instructions:

• The presentation is original work and logically organized.
• Follow current APA format including citation of references.
• The PowerPoint presentation should include 10-15 slides that are clear and easy to read.
• Speaker notes expand upon and clarify content on the slides.
• Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.

There are subtle—but distinct—differences between communicating with an individual and a group. Communication among group members can be seen as a microcosm of communication within the entire organization. Using the company that you selected in Week 1, complete the following analysis to show the differences between writing and communicating a message:

• Select 2 communication channels to present 1 message to (a) an individual employee within the organization and (b) a group within the organization.
• Describe a new product being released by your company by writing messages of 400–500 words to (a) the individual, and (b) the group.
  • For the individual employee message, consider how the new product affects the individual’s job or role within the organization. How would you customize the message?
  • What considerations are important in the message for a larger group? Are there specific differences? Answer these questions in the analysis.
  • Lastly, explain what communication channels are most effective when dealing with individual employees, a group, and the larger organization. Consider cross-communication platforms, too. How do they complement each other?

Provide 1–2 sources other than your textbook to support your answer. Use APA style for citations.

  Due 09/13/23 1900 EST

Respond to this DB using APA and include at least 2 scholarly references

Competing Needs in Healthcare Policy Development: National Healthcare Issue of Healthcare Workers Shortage 

Different needs can have a big effect on how policies are made to deal with the shortage of health care workers. As a graduate student in nursing who also works in a psychiatric hospital, I know how difficult things can get.
Haddad, L. M., Annamaraju, P., and Toney-Butler, T. J. (2020) say that nurses are an important part of health care and make up the most important part of the health field. The World Health Statistics Report says that there are about 29 million nurses and midwives in the world, with 3.9 million of them working in the United States. 

From an academic and evidence-based point of view, competing needs include restricted budgets, different goals among stakeholders, different places where people can get health care depending on where they live, and changing patient demographics. These things can cause tension and problems when making laws.
There aren’t enough nurses for a few main reasons: bad planning and allocation of the workforce; lack of new staff due to lack of resources; bad recruitment, retention, and “return” policies; inefficient use of nursing resources due to the wrong mix and use of skills; bad incentive structures; and lack of career support. 

                                                       Effects of Competing Needs on Healthcare Workers Shortage 

For instance, if you know a lot about psychology, you could show how important it is to have mental health experts. But because of shortages, other parts of health care may also need help. To find a balance and meet these needs, workforce estimates must be based on facts and take into account how many people are retiring and how many people are being born. 

Getting to population health, universal health coverage (UHC), and fair access to health care depends on having a health staff with enough capacity, capability, and quality to meet epidemiological challenges and changing needs. WHO says that by 2030, there will be 40 million more jobs in health and social care because more people will need them around the world. In most countries, nurses are the most highly skilled workers, and they make up about half of the world’s health care workers. 

                                                              Solving The Issue Of Competing Needs through Policy 

In this situation, it would be important for healthcare managers, policymakers, educators, and professionals from other areas to work together to make policy. Research that shows what works can help businesses decide how to hire, train, and keep workers. By recognizing and addressing these different needs, plans can be made to deal with the lack of healthcare workers and take psychiatric nursing experience into account. 

When it comes to psychology, having different needs can have a big impact on how healthcare decisions are made. As a psychiatry nurse practitioner, for example, you might run into situations where the patient’s need for freedom conflicts with the need to give the right care and make sure the patient is safe. Finding a balance between individual rights and the bigger goals of treatment success and patient well-being requires healthcare professionals, policymakers, and patients to make decisions based on evidence and work together. When making plans to deal with these hard problems, it is important to think about study, clinical standards, and ethical principles. 

Most people who talk about nurse shortages say that lawmakers should pay attention to all parts (called “policy bundles”) and not make policies based on simple, linear thinking. There is proof of this in both high- and low-income countries, where programs that only focus on growing nurse training have not increased the number of nurses entering the workforce or filled gaps in priority areas where there have been shortages in the past. 

To deal with the lack of health care workers, we need a plan with many parts, including laws that help hire, keep, and train people. Some ways to improve access to healthcare are to pay healthcare workers more money, expand training programs, improve working conditions, and use telemedicine. Evidence-based policies can be made by looking at trends in the workforce, figuring out how different actions affect the situation, and involving stakeholders to make sure the policies are well applied. 

                                                                                                   References 

V.M. Drennan and Fiona Ross What’s going on, what it means, and what can be done to fix the problem The British Medical Bulletin, 130(1), pages 25–37 

Organization for World Health. Workforce 2030 is a global plan for using people to improve health. Retrieved September 11, 2023, from https://www.who.int/hrh/resources/pub_globstrathrh-2030/en/Links to an external site.. 

Shortage of Nurses | StatPearls | NCBI Bookshelf | NCBI Visit www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=773408731 for more information.