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**Introduction**
In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing healthcare environment. Being adept at research helps you find the information you need. This assessment gives you practice with that skill by having you research a healthcare problem or issue faced by current healthcare organizations.
For this assessment, you will research best practices related to a current health care problem.
Your selected problem or issue may be utilized again in a future assessment.
**Healthcare Workforce Shortages**
o Description: Many regions face shortages of healthcare professionals,
including doctors, nurses, and allied health workers. This can lead to increased
workloads, burnout, and reduced quality of care for patients.
o Interventions: Increasing funding for healthcare education and training
programs, offering incentives for healthcare professionals to work in
underserved areas, implementing policies to improve working conditions,
promoting the use of telehealth to extend care, and supporting international
recruitment of healthcare workers.
o
**Keywords: Health workforce shortages,** healthcare professionals, medical
education, healthcare training, workforce incentives, underserved areas,
telehealth, healthcare recruitment, healthcare policy, provider burnout.
After you have selected one of the problems/issues from the list above, return to the detailed
instructions in the courseroom to complete your assessment.
Write a 3–5 page paper in which you include the following:
· Summarize the healthcare problem or issue, including describing its professional relevance.
· Describe your interest in the problem or issue.
· Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
**Discussion of Research**
Discuss your research and selection process for each of the three journal articles you have chosen to include in your annotated bibliography.
· Describe your process of applying library research skills to identify the journal articles relevant to the healthcare problem or issue you are researching.
· Identify the keywords you used to select the articles.
· Describe the criteria you used to select the resources, including the names of the databases you used.
· What was the process like to locate relevant articles?
· Assess the credibility of the information sources.
· Determine whether each resource is from an academic, peer-reviewed journal.
· Determine whether the publication is current (published within the last 3–5 years).
· Determine whether information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
· Assess the relevance of the information sources.
· Explain how the healthcare problem or issue is addressed in each source.
· Discuss what kind of contribution each resource provides.
**Annotated Bibliography**
Summarize each of the three current academic, peer-reviewed journal articles you chose, using the annotated bibliography organizational format. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
· List each full reference in APA format, followed immediately by its annotation.
· Present your three current, annotated references in alphabetical order, according to the reference citation.
· Double-space each reference and format it with a hanging indent.
· Provide the full APA reference citation, including the author, date, title, publisher or publication, and any additional information required by APA style.
· Write the annotation (summary) for each citation in paragraph form, using approximately 150 words (or 1–3 paragraphs) for each citation. Make sure to cite the article in your summary. Include the following components for each annotation:
· Identify the purpose of the article.
· Summarize the article.
· Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
**Summary**
**In a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper, summarize what you learned from the process of developing the annotated bibliography.**
**Your academic writing is expected to conform to the following requirements:**
·
**Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.**
·
**Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of current scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. Use the** [**Evidence and APA**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) **guidelines provided. Cite the reference in its summary.**
·
**Formatting: Include a title page and reference page, Times New Roman, 12 point.**
·
**Length: Complete no more than 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to the title page and reference page.**
·
**References: Although you are citing your three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles within the Annotated Bibliography section of this paper, be sure to also list your citations on a reference page at the end of your paper, along with any other resources you may have included.**
**## assignment2.docx**
**Introduction**
In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing healthcare environment. Being adept at research helps you find the information you need. This assessment gives you practice with that skill by having you research a healthcare problem or issue faced by current healthcare organizations.
For this assessment, you will research best practices related to a current health care problem.
Your selected problem or issue may be utilized again in a future assessment.
**Healthcare Workforce Shortages**
o Description: Many regions face shortages of healthcare professionals,
including doctors, nurses, and allied health workers. This can lead to increased
workloads, burnout, and reduced quality of care for patients.
o Interventions: Increasing funding for healthcare education and training
programs, offering incentives for healthcare professionals to work in
underserved areas, implementing policies to improve working conditions,
promoting the use of telehealth to extend care, and supporting international
recruitment of healthcare workers.
o
**Keywords: Health workforce shortages,** healthcare professionals, medical
education, healthcare training, workforce incentives, underserved areas,
telehealth, healthcare recruitment, healthcare policy, provider burnout.
After you have selected one of the problems/issues from the list above, return to the detailed
instructions in the courseroom to complete your assessment.
Write a 3–5 page paper in which you include the following:
· Summarize the healthcare problem or issue, including describing its professional relevance.
· Describe your interest in the problem or issue.
· Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
**Discussion of Research**
Discuss your research and selection process for each of the three journal articles you have chosen to include in your annotated bibliography.
· Describe your process of applying library research skills to identify the journal articles relevant to the healthcare problem or issue you are researching.
· Identify the keywords you used to select the articles.
· Describe the criteria you used to select the resources, including the names of the databases you used.
· What was the process like to locate relevant articles?
· Assess the credibility of the information sources.
· Determine whether each resource is from an academic, peer-reviewed journal.
· Determine whether the publication is current (published within the last 3–5 years).
· Determine whether information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
· Assess the relevance of the information sources.
· Explain how the healthcare problem or issue is addressed in each source.
· Discuss what kind of contribution each resource provides.
**Annotated Bibliography**
Summarize each of the three current academic, peer-reviewed journal articles you chose, using the annotated bibliography organizational format. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
· List each full reference in APA format, followed immediately by its annotation.
· Present your three current, annotated references in alphabetical order, according to the reference citation.
· Double-space each reference and format it with a hanging indent.
· Provide the full APA reference citation, including the author, date, title, publisher or publication, and any additional information required by APA style.
· Write the annotation (summary) for each citation in paragraph form, using approximately 150 words (or 1–3 paragraphs) for each citation. Make sure to cite the article in your summary. Include the following components for each annotation:
· Identify the purpose of the article.
· Summarize the article.
· Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
**Summary**
**In a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper, summarize what you learned from the process of developing the annotated bibliography.**
**Your academic writing is expected to conform to the following requirements:**
·
**Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.**
·
**Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of current scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. Use the** [**Evidence and APA**](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) **guidelines provided. Cite the reference in its summary.**
·
**Formatting: Include a title page and reference page, Times New Roman, 12 point.**
·
**Length: Complete no more than 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to the title page and reference page.**
·
**References: Although you are citing your three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles within the Annotated Bibliography section of this paper, be sure to also list your citations on a reference page at the end of your paper, along with any other resources you may have included.**