Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.

For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue.

  Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples. 

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1.
• Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

  

As a Doctor of Nursing practice (DNP) graduate, address the following questions;

1. When you start using the term “doctor,” do you believe physicians, pharmacists, or other professionals with practicing doctorates would intimidate you? And if so, how will you handle these circumstances?

2. What strategy would you employ to address this problem in your situation if you encounter resistance to your proper title?

3. What strategies may DNP holders employ, in your opinion, to raise public knowledge and comprehension of the DNP degree?

Document this assignment in a 3 pages word document. Include 5 articles published in last 5 years. 

ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 2: STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.

Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignment asks you to consider these tools and how you might apply them to your own work.

In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.

To Prepare:

· Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.

· Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

The Assignment:

Part 2, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

· Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing

· Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics

· Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.

· Use Grammarly and Turnitin to improve the product.

· Explain how Grammarly, Turnitin, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 2, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your:

1. academic work as a student of the MSN program and 

2. professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

Note:

 Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

Required readings

· American Nurses Association. (2015). 

Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statementsLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only

· American Psychological Association. (2020). 
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

· Chapter 1, “Scholarly Writing and Publishing Principles”

· Section 1.17, “Implications of Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism” (p. 21)

· Chapter 4, “Writing Style and Grammar”

· Chapter 8, “Works Credited in the Text”

· Section 8.2, “Plagiarism” (p. 254)

· Section 8.3, “Self-Plagiarism” (p. 256)

· Chapter 10, “Reference Examples”

· Alba, B. (2018). 

Factors that impact on emergency nurses’ ethical decision-making abilityLinks to an external site.
. 
Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 855–866. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016674769

· Glasper, A. (2016). 

Does cheating by students undermine the integrity of the nursing profession?Links to an external site.
 
British Journal of Nursing, 25(16), 932–933.

·

NLN Ethical Principles for Nursing EducationLinks to an external site.
. (2012). 
Nursing Education Perspective, 33(1), 65.

· Walden University Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). 

ASC success strategies: PlagiarismLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism

· Walden Office of Student Affairs. (n.d.). 

SafeAssign tutorialsLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/studentaffairs/academicintegrity/safe-assign-turn-it-in

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). 

APA style: OverviewLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). 

APA style: APA basics checklistLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved May 3, 2021, https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/checklist

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.)

Grammarly: OverviewLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarly

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Food for thought items: 

From your reading assignments have you noticed any similarities among the cultures that you have read about, are there any distinct differences that would have you make an adjustment in your plan of nursing care? 

Please review the criteria for your culturally diverse client interview.  Do you have any special preparations? Are there any sensitivity issues you may want to be aware of during this process? 

The actual discussion topic included: 

In the evaluation of your current workplace or neighborhood. Have you noticed any additional population shifts?  It seems that this topic as been explored already by several students. If this is the case, please continue to highlight noticeable changes with each other

The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to analyze a root cause of a specific safety concern in a health care setting. You will create a plan to improve the safety of patients related to the concern of medication administration safety based on the results of your analysis, using the literature and professional best practices as well as the existing resources at your chosen health care setting to provide a rationale for your plan.

Use the Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan [DOCX] Download Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan [DOCX]template to help you to stay organized and concise. This will guide you step-by-step through the root cause analysis process.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

• Analyze the root cause of a specific patient safety issue in an organization.
• Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue.
• Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan to address a specific patient safety issue.
• Identify organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve your plan.
• Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.