Workplace Environment Assessment

INTRODUCTION:   Title belongs here  

There is always an occurrence of competing demands whenever management is forced to require or develops a requirement of wanting more work to be done with less available resources for the chosen amount of work. This is usually dependent on the use of limited resources—generally trying to do and achieve a certain amount of work with minimal resources. There is a tendency for tension in resource allocation or even prioritization whenever there is comparable importance regarding the competing demands to the decision-makers or the managers. The struggle to have and meet the competing demands has led to many abstractions in organization studies that call for a well-balanced experience in regards to exploitation and exploration, efficiency, and flexibility. (Al Khajeh, 2018) where was your purpose statement?  

Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor: incorrect level heading format- please look this up  

In this case, as per the selected stressor or rather issue in the healthcare sector, it is about pricing and how it has been misused and therefore caused challenges for individuals seeking healthcare services. Pricing, regardless of the means used by individuals, usually has an impact on healthcare. Regarding transparency in healthcare pricing, there are competing needs that directly or indirectly impact the issue, including the need for patients to get the key to resolving their health issues such as ailments. (Al Khajeh, 2018) punctuation belongs after not before citations 

Another competing need in this regard is the healthcare practice or service provider's ability to offer excellent treatment and care for the ailments of all patients regardless of their payment methods and prices. Some different issues and challenges arise due to a lack of transparency regarding prices in the healthcare sector. Sometimes hospital bills are too huge for clients of specific hospitals to wrap their heads around what causes all the expenses. Some hospital procedures are covered by different payment methods, such as health insurance, while others are not covered. Therefore, patients need to understand what causes all the bills they have to pay. Unclear communication from the healthcare providers could lead to a lack of transparency in the prices listed for the various services and treatments being offered. Therefore, healthcare providers are obliged to offer a clear and transparent pricing service to their patients. This is among the top challenges regarding healthcare in the country and remains one of the top reasons why healthcare services are so expensive for the people.(Al Khajeh, 2018) period belongs after not before the citation 

Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor: incorrect format  

There is a policy regarding price transparency in the organization that describes why patients' prices may vary depending on the payment source for the selected or rather requested service. The policy is in place to allow patients to know their charges only after describing and letting the healthcare provider know who will be paying for their bills. Depending on who is paying the bill, the prices are variable. (Al Khajeh, 2018) You have one source for everything? At the graduate level I expect to see you investigate much more of the literature 

Therefore, the patient cannot clearly understand the right and correct price for a particular procedure or service at a healthcare center. Based on this, the lack of pricing information for the patients is a crucial factor that plays a considerable role in escalating the entire issue of lack of price transparency in the healthcare system. The fact that the individual seeking healthcare does not have easy access to princess regarding the healthcare services they are looking for means little to no effort to boost price transparency. To achieve success in clarity or transparency in pricing in the healthcare sector, these policies have to be implemented by providing clear information to patients.(Al Khajeh, 2018) 

Critique the policy for ethical considerations and explain the policy's strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.  

There has been a lot of criticism when it comes to price transparency and how it has affected many healthcare providers, primarily because most of these healthcare service providers have little to zero transparency. The policy sbfh nhat what is this? there are different prices of the same healthcare service based on who will pay the bill is ineffective for patients who want to make a financial decision before seeking the needed health service. The policy describes pricing based on paying the fees for the medical services offered, which means patients cannot budget for their specific treatments or procedures. (Appelbaum et al. 2017) et al., 2017 

One of the key strengths of the policy mentioned above is that it strives to keep healthcare information as private as possible, allowing only those seeking the essential service to get the information at the critical moment of the service delivery. The real challenge of the policy is financial. This means that if a patient requests service, the patient will not be in a position to know what the procedure will cost right away. This hinders personal budgeting and other financial plans for the affected individuals. This results in a negative perception of healthcare services offered because of a lack of transparency which is an apparent reason for trust issues to crop up between the two involved parties.(Appelbaum et al. 2017) 

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.  

An excellent recommendation here would be to have and develop materials with crucial information for the patients regarding the various procedures and the different procedures cost, all this while clarifying the different situations under which the various pricing options fall under. Such material would provide an easy way for the patients to differentiate the various conditions under which the other prices will apply and for what procedures. In most cases, other issues send individuals to seek healthcare services. (Lau et al. 2017) this sentence makes no sense, and again you have a citation format issue 

Therefore, such procedures  you do not use therefore as the first word in a paragraph and I have no idea what procedures you are referring to- you are too vague should be easily explained to allow patients to understand what they are looking for and therefore know what they will eventually pay for. Therefore, this information will be given to patients once they make their initial inquiry regarding the specific procedure they are looking for. There is a high chance that, for the patients that rely on insurance for their payment, they will get the information and be able to make a quick decision on whether to go for the treatment or not. Meanwhile, there will always be a crop of patients who will not want to care whether there are different prices based on who will be paying, and therefore, they will always not spend their time going through the material for the information included on it. (Rehman, Mohamed &Ayoup, 2019) this is a run-on sentence that makes no sense and again a citation issue 

Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and the policies and provides two scholarly resources supporting your policy or practice recommendation. 

A study was done titled, " “An evaluation of patient education materials based on the internet: will patients understand them?" ” This study was done by authors Nitin Agarwal, David Hansberry, Elizabeth John, and Prateek Agarwal. This is not how you cite an article In the study, the authors analyze analysis on the efficacy of education materials for patients. The information is about various genres of the healthcare sector. There was evidence presented in the study that providing education materials to patients is of great help. Still, it is all about whether the patients understood the information submitted to them or not. This factor is determined by the level of the grade used to build the education materials. 

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REFERENCES: 

Al Khajeh, E. H. (2018). Impact of leadership styles on organizational performance. Journal of Human Resources Management Research, 2018, 1-10. Where is volume and issue? What is the year doing here? 

Appelbaum, S. H., Calla, R., Desautels, D., & Hasan, L. (2017). The challenges of organizational agility (part 1). Industrial and Commercial Training. Is this a book? And article? A random website?  

Lau, P. Y. Y., Tong, J. L. T., Lien, B. Y. H., Hsu, Y. C., & Chong, C. L. (2017). Ethical work climate, employee commitment and proactive customer service performance: Test of the mediating effects of organizational politics. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 35, 20-26. 

Rehman, S. U., Mohamed, R., &Ayoup, H. (2019). The mediating role of organizational capabilities between organizational performance and its determinants. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 9(1), 1-23.