Clearly state the health policy issue and briefly demonstrate the importance of the policy issue. The paper should focus on the planning, implementation, and evaluation that went into the policy or program.
Course: Health Economics Research topic/Issue: Nursing shortages in the USA Assignment: Clearly state the health policy issue and briefly demonstrate the importance of the policy issue. The paper should focus on the planning, implementation, and evaluation that went into the policy or program. It should apply the Comprehensive Rational Approach model (define the problem, the criteria involved, or priorities, options for solutions, implementation, monitor/evaluate, revision). Other pertinent areas to consider are aspects such as the benefits of incorporating components of various approaches to conducting a needs assessment and selecting the appropriate statistics for analysis of data and the target audience for the program. Section I: The impact of nursing shortages on patient quality. (10 Pages, include at least 5 references from professional journals (i.e., Health Affairs, HSR, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Public Health) as well as several other references (i.e., Wall Street Journal, NYT, and other periodical) Section II: The impact of nursing shortages on healthcare cost. (10 Pages, include at least 5 references from professional journals (i.e., Health Affairs, HSR, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Public Health) as well as several other references (i.e., Wall Street Journal, NYT, and other periodical) *References do not count towards page count. Paper must follow APA format- double-spaced. Will be submitted through Turnitin.com, no plagiarism.