Current Healthcare Issues

To Prepare:  Examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.

Review the Resources and select one current national healthcare issue/stressor to focus on.

Reflect on the current national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and think about how this issue/stressor may be addressed in your work setting.

Post a QUESTION of the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for analysis and explain how the healthcare issue/stressor may impact your work setting. Which social determinant(s) most affects this health issue? Then, describe how your health system work setting has responded to the healthcare issue/stressor, including a QUESTION of what changes may have been implemented. Be specific and provide examples.